Word: butter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wheeling-dealing corporation lawyer, claims that during the 1920s Chadbourne gave Smith cash and stock options worth $400,000. The motive was high-minded: the payments were designed to augment Smith's $10,000-a-year Governor's salary so the Happy Warrior could live "without bread-and- butter worries." Chadbourne, who died in 1938, admits he was miffed when Smith later refused to support a subway-fare increase, which would have hugely added to the value of Chadbourne's mass-transit stock...
...reform what he did for the MX -- make a lot of phone calls and twist a lot of arms." Even then, the board agreed, the bill's prospects will hardly be assured. Said | Greenspan: "Anyone who thinks this is going to run through Congress like a hot knife through butter has not observed the political process in this country...
Question: What do the following have in common? The Sears, Roebuck Mail Order Catalog. Collected Poems 1947-1980 of Allen Ginsberg. Elvis, by Albert Goldman. Jane Fonda's Workout Book. Iacocca. The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss. The Rand McNally Road Atlas. The Union of Concerned Scientists' The Fallacy of Star Wars. An eclectic selection of summer reading? Not quite. They are among the 313 books chosen by a committee of ten literary figures for an exhibition at the Moscow International Book Fair called "America Through American Eyes...
...time. While the company wanted to retain the symbol for posterity, market research showed that most consumers never even notice it. Said Spokesman W.F. Dobson: "There is very little benefit to having it on the packages." Procter & Gamble, which makes a host of products ranging from Jif peanut butter to Crest toothpaste, will retain the symbol on corporate stationery and buildings...
...forced by headlines. McCarthy writes, therefore she is, and she is everywhere. In the course of a dissertation on cooking, she quotes a parody of Goethe's Werther: "Charlotte, having seen his body/ Borne before her on a shutter,/ Like a well-conducted person,/ Went on cutting bread and butter." Charlotte was a lady after the author's art. Let violence and fatuities pass in review; the well-conducted Mary McCarthy will watch and then slice them into appropriate pieces. Books and events have always been her bread and butter...