Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard times means that the Lampoon didn't make the killing they expected to on their Life parody last fall. As my paternal grandmother used to say about my father, "their eyes were bigger than their stomach." Just before the Life press run, they jacked up the number they would print from 400,000 to 650,000. They could only sell half of them, and the rest are rotting in warehouses from Sheboygan to El Paso. They lost $15,000 on the $200,000 deal. That's big business...
...answer was yes. On the other hand, in many categories there were big majorities against turning in the son: suburban residents, the under-30s, the college-educated, professional people, those earning over $10,000, westerners and Jews. Curiously, blacks would turn the son over to the police by a bigger margin than whites-42% to 38%, v. 42% to 41%, Those who would not turn in the son said that they would send him to a doctor or psychiatrist, or help him break the habit themselves...
...which they are based. The groups compete against each other to see which can best please the public. The judges are the customers; they mark ballots to cite those who give them the snappiest service. Employees in winning groups receive $100 each and a chance to draw for bigger prizes ranging up to a sports car or $2,700 in cash...
Toward a Million. The oil companies want bigger tankers because huge capacity makes it economical for their ships to bypass the blocked Suez Canal and lumber around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe or the Americas. The transport costs run to about 400 per bbl. in a 200,000-d.w.t. ship, compared with 520 in a 70,000-tonner. Each big ship can save a company about $1,000,000 a year in hauling costs...
...begin, an often quoted figure is that the University's expenses have tripled in the last ten years. This is misleading because during their period government contracted and funded research rose eight-fold to 55.4 million dollars. This cost Harvard virtually nothing but it makes the budget look much bigger and distorts how much costs have really risen. Delete this amount and the real (non-governmental) expenses increased by 122 per cent, not 200 per cent (from 43.2 million dollars to 96.0 million dollars...