Word: cater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fogg is unable to cater to the increased demands as well as it might wish, the root of the problem is of course financial. While the University is in a position to meet some of its inflationary expenses by receiving large grants from bodies like the Ford Foundation, the Fogg, as Coolidge says, still "depends to a fantastic degree on endowment and individual contributions." The Government, the foundations, and industry provide little support for the humanities, preferring to allocate their grants to universities, hospitals, and the sciences...
...figure." I resent this ... It may interest you to know that my clothes are sized from 10 to 18 usually, and much of the time to size 20, and that a great majority of the women who buy my clothes are medium height or tall. But I do not cater to the small or rounded figure...
...profit of better than $160-a remarkable performance. Alf and his paper make a strange combination. Politics, to him, is a vast irrelevance; horse racing, to the Worker, is a questionable capitalist diversion.* But back in 1935, the paper needed to boost circulation, and the Worker decided to cater to a weakness of the workers. The editors looked around for a horse handicapper, and there was Alf. Then unemployed, he had been picking winners ever since he was nine (when he selected Coronach, 11 to 2, in the 1926 Derby). He was no Communist, he told the Worker people...
...attracts advertisers in English, French and German. But Editor Bretscher has no intention of going for more readers or advertisers by leavening his heavy diet of political analysis with easier-to-read news and features. Says he happily: "I hope we shall always edit a good paper and never cater too much to public tastes...
...slaying of John the Baptist to please the whims of a dancing girl. Surely the real reason for this firing is in the phrase "he has never been close to American farming problems and operations." Unlike the head of John the Baptist, Ladejinsky can be replaced. To cater to the whims of a few who feel an agricultural economist must farm with his hands is stupid. To say Ladejinsky is a security risk is to ignore what he has done...