Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world crises. The shortages are forcing us to reevaluate our priorities, a vital element in avoiding stagnation and apathy. If we endure the crisis without benefiting from the lessons to be drawn, we will lose both to the cold and to our own insatiable desire for an ever larger chunk of the world in our back yard...
...deposit box in his Key Biscayne bank, as he claims, where he could not even collect interest on it. Moreover, one of the payments was made on the very day that Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, apparently as a favor to the President, were concluding a deal to buy a chunk of Nixon's property in San Clemente...
...study by the office of New York's chief medical examiner; it accounts for some 90% of the fatalities. Other killers are lobster tail, hard-boiled eggs, clams, sausage, turkey and even bread. The sheer volume of the fatal mouthful is often breathtakingly large: the average chunk of food extracted from the windpipe of victims, Eller and Haugen say, is about the size of a cigarette pack; in one case, they report, the piece was over 7 in. long. The temptation to swallow such unmanageable amounts seems to be greatest among those with poor teeth or dentures, although...
...familiar with the symptoms. A son of the Roman Emperor Claudius I is said to have choked to death on a pear he tossed playfully into the air and then swallowed. More recently, Mrs. Joan Skakel, Ethel Kennedy's sister-in-law, died after inhaling a chunk of meat in 1967. T.V. Soong, the brother of Madame Chiang Kaishek, choked to death in 1971 while dining, as did ex-Baseball Slugger Jimmy Foxx...
...investment tax credit−which currently allows businessmen to write off 7% of their expenses for new capital equipment−to flexible levels, varying from 3% to 15% of such investments. Again, the idea is to stimulate the economy in slack periods by letting firms deduct a big chunk of their new investments, and to slow it down in overheated times by withholding the credit privilege almost entirely...