Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking with them some graduate students. No undergraduates would have to leave. Since the reduction in faculty and students would be proportional to the reduction in research money, the financial gap to be filled by the university due to this restructuring would be only that portion of the "indirect coast" of research contracts not actually spent for indirect costs related to the research...
...early 1944, Artillery Captain Fielding was transferred to the OSS and shipped to Italy, Algeria and Yugoslavia to do propaganda work behind enemy lines. After a narrow escape from an ambush on the Dalmatian coast, he was discharged as a major with a citation that credited him with arranging "more than 30,000 voluntary enemy surrenders." He returned to civilian life as a roving journalist, and as he roved, he discovered that no travel guide catered to his all-American life style...
...Rationing. To conserve scarce funds, most banks are turning down new corporate customers and rationing loans to regulars. Some are cutting off finance companies and mortgage-banking firms and generally refusing loans to finance corporate takeovers. The pressure is strongest on banks in the East and on the West Coast because they deal with many large corporations that need money to expand. The cost of borrowing, already at a 40-year peak, continues to rise. Bankers have stepped up their prime rate four times in the past six months, to an alltime high 7½%, and speculation is widespread that...
...teases his listeners as he teased the readers of his novels: "This speech was conceived in Maryland, U.S.A., on the Atlantic coast. You may ask: Didn't this man have anything better to do amid dunes, billboards and deserted beach hotels than to meditate on conditions in West Germany? Why didn't he stick to his past and spend his time thinking up the usual stories?" But once he has justified his position on the platform, Grass moves on to serious and substantial criticism of German society and politics. He wants"Splinter Parties," those with less than five per cent...
...remains an optimist. As he looks ahead, he predicts that by 1976 the welfare state will have met most human needs through "medicare, denticare, judicare, menticare and ped-icare." And then Actor Rock Hunter will run for the presidency by advocating "the greatest welfare program of them all." From coast to coast, Hunter will thunder: "Do you realize that two-thirds of our nation goes to bed each night ill-content, underloved and alone?" Hunter's answer: "Sexicare...