Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less heady version would preserve the present personal exemption for the taxpayer and his dependents on the theory that bare subsistence income should go untaxed. Retention of the $600-apiece exemption would exclude roughly 25% of total personal income from the tax base. Even so, the average rate would come to only about...
...five years ago. They were first shown under tartan skirts for college girls, and bought not as particularly proper but as overwhelmingly practical. No girdle or garter belt was needed, and no longer were knees, neglected between the long socks' end and the slip's beginning, left bare to redden in the cold; slips, in fact, might be completely forgotten, too, as the long tights were warmer and less bulky. But tights remained off limits off campus. Not so, of course, for beatniks, whose heavy black turtleneck sweaters had never looked particularly go with white tennis socks...
...Radio Corp. of America, the master's voice belongs to Chairman David Sarnoff, and it has been rather cheerless in recent years. By 1960, two ambitious projects had pulled RCA profits down to a bare 2.4% on sales. One was Sarnoff's gamble on color television-a burst of red on the ledger books. The other was RCA's assault on the grimly competitive computer market; the figures that RCA computers produced were all minuses...
...Germany, the writing that followed the nightmare of World War II was not a literature. It was a record of unassimilated shock. In books and trials, the horrors of the past were convulsively laid bare and the guilt placed upon major Nazis and lesser savages like "Hangman" Heydrich and Ilse Koch. But as the handful of notorious Nazis was again and again brought to public account, it became easier and easier for the rest of the Germans to think of themselves as innocent victims-lambs who had been set upon and held in thrall by wolves...
Reduced to bare essentials, his books turn out to have hardly any plot at all. Speculations About Jakob, to be published here in March, offers fragmentary views of the life of an East German railroad switchman. The Third Book About Achim tells how and why the third book about Achim could not be written. Crossing to the East, a West German writer named Karsch begins collecting material for a biography on a much-written-about East German bicycle racer named Achim. What interests Karsch in Achim's life, however, does not have enough socialist uplift for the East German...