Word: audits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain, after a promising start, was hit by a worldwide slump in raw material prices which sent the whole sterling area sliding downhill, from an EPU surplus of $726 million in April 1951 to a net cumulative loss of $860 million at last month's audit. Desperately, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler slashed Britain's trade "liberalization" from 90% to a worse-than-ever...
Twenty-three of the 47 awards are full tuition scholarships, covering registration fee, two four-unit courses, with the option of auditing an additional two four-unit courses free. The other 24 cover registration, one four-unit course, and a one-course audit if desired...
...shortages, which occurred in the pension fund, were discovered during an audit...
...clean, I shall dismiss him . . ." Then, with a series of broom-strokes, he: 1) demanded, within 48 hours, a detailed description of every committee employee's job, salary and political references; 2) promised to weed out "supernumeraries"; 3) froze all committee expenditures until a new executive committee could audit the budget; 4) declared he would serve without salary. (Boyle was paid $35,000 a year.) "May no act of mine," McKinney said evenly, "ever prove embarrassing to the President, my family, the Democratic Party or myself...
...follow through on a very sticky wicket, here is an extension of the delicate differences between the two Ancient & Honourable Universities as observed by an American [and Cantabrigian]. Oxford: Scotch whisky, Parliament, Press & Pulpit, Beautiful men, Boyish women, Refined brilliance, Marry good country girls or Americans. Cambridge: Audit ale, Poetry, Pubs & Privacy, Handsome men, Manly women, Rough genius, Marry lusty city girls or Continentals...