Word: cos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Douglas Aircraft from going under; later, Partner Howard S. Kniffin helped Boise Cascade spin off a number of enterprises in mobile homes and chemicals that were doing little for it but lose money. Meyer, still active at 75, last week headed off a threatened proxy fight at the Signal Cos. (shipping, Mack trucks, radio stations, the California Angels baseball team) by getting an Italian investment group to buy a major interest...
...subteen set also wants records: the Osmond Brothers, David Cassidy, The Jackson 5, Andy and David Williams, and the Carpenters. Unlike their hard-rock counterparts, the young idols come on as shy homebodies, and their songs tend to be sweet and wholesome, like Rick Springfield's latest: "Cos having someone believe in me,/ Is all I need to know...
...roster of women on big corporate boards also includes Chicago Lawyer Jewel Stradford Lafontant, a director of TWA and the Jewel Cos. grocery chain; and Girl Scouts Executive Director Cecily Cannan Selby, who is on the Avon and RCA boards. Last week Metropolitan Life Insurance named Barnard College President Martha E. Peterson for a directorship. They and other women who join boards are acquiring power in two ways. Aside from gaining the prestige and authority that have always gone with the job, directors of all companies today are being forced to take more active roles in company decisions. In several...
According to Ken Lawrence's documentation of racism in the Selective Service, racial lines are most distinctively drawn around the treatment of war objectors. Of the total of Camps (CPSC) as Cos during World War II, 10 per cent were black. But in dividing this total, one finds a vast racial gap between those imprisoned and put in CPSC. One per cent of the total of those put in CPSC were black (122 out of 11,896). Of those who sere sent to prison, 18.1 per cent were black (2.208 out of 12.183). To look at the totals another...
...Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed out with reprehensible etymology is "as in hermaphrodite...