Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started digging into possible misconduct by traders even before the feds moved in and that the board had already taken disciplinary action in one case. But if Skinner's charges prove to be true, the board's measures appear to have been just a drop in the bucket...
...world's smartest commodity traders. He has made close to $10 million. If you want to get rich, he advises, "you can't have the usual attitude toward money. If you think of every dollar you lose on the commodities market as a bucket of coal you'll have to shovel some day, then you're bound to be a bad trader." A onetime philosophy student at De Paul University, Dennis has observed: "People in my business have a tendency to selfdestruct. I think it's far more important to know what Freud thinks about...
...energy plan, most of it favorable -almost as many letters as poured in last November when it temporarily dropped the popular Doonesbury comic strip. But on Capitol Hill, Congressmen almost unanimously described their energy mail as light to moderate. "It's an absolute drop in the bucket compared with saccharin," said Melody Miller, a Ted Kennedy aide...
...just a drop in the bucket as far as they are concerned," David G. Blankenhorn '77, said last week...
Commoner regards the conventional kind of conservation as a short-term measure "to see that there are no holes in the bucket carrying energy to industry and homes." For the longer term, he advocates a reorganization of the entire economy to make it both more fuel efficient and responsible: "I think we have to introduce the concept of social governance of the production process; we need to find some way for society to determine directly what to produce...