Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factories, new machine tools, bigger inventories and more defense equipment. By ECE's rough comparison, Italy. Austria, The Netherlands and West Germany put only 10-15% of their income into expanding the economy. France spent only 8% of its income for new production, and at the bottom of the list is the United Kingdom, which invests only 6% of its income...
...gone up 30 percent (in the face of a 62 percent rise in the cost of living), while in the same period junior faculty salaries have about doubled. Such a situation, in which the top man in the profession rarely earns much more than twice as much as the bottom man, according to the Committee, fails to take into full account a man's years of service and the skill which won him his position as a full professor. This is a break with Harvard's tradition of recognizing individual excellence: it is in sharp contrast with the practice...
...most 25 per cent are "top men," is used to justify a salary increase for at least half of the teaching profession. This somewhat invalidates the committee's use of the "excellence" argument, for the support of the whole top half of the profession at the expense of the bottom half imposes some strain...
...milk the most out of the ratio is to stack tutors and students in the same entries, like wildcats in a laundry bag. People think I run up and down stairs because I'm busy. Busy, hell. My tutor lives between me and the bottom of the stairs. Every time he catches me on the stairs it ruins...
...frozen, they will be back in Barnfield Pit. In time, they hope to find more human bones, and perhaps the burned bones of animals or other clues to the Swans combe way of life. "We've got premonitions," says Bertram. "Besides, I like to get to the bottom of things, you know...