Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles O. Finley, who pays him $135,000 a year to hit and catch baseballs, would not have been amused. Neither would the insurance company that covers his life for $1.7 million. Or his teammates on the Oakland Athletics, who are depending on his play this year for a shot...
Nevertheless the idea of taking care of the author as a relative is surprisingly attractive. It is, in fact, a rather Vonnegutian idea. One of the fragments collected here proposes a sensibly loony scheme by which everyone in the country would get a new middle name and a lot of...
In the latest case, the Department of Labor accused a California Standard subsidiary, Western Operations, Inc., of discharging the 160 employees solely because of their ages during a three-year period that ended Dec. 31, 1973. Company officials contended that they had done nothing wrong but chose to sign a...
Asbestos is used in thousands of everyday products, and roughly a hundred new ones appear on the market each year. Pot holders, ironing board covers, draperies, rugs, movie screens, electrical tape, automobile brake linings, vinyl floor tiles and metal alloys contain asbestos, as do a whole host of plastic articles...
"You can take any stupidity you like and say, there, that's a liberal for you. Word covers simply everything." --Wilfrid Sheed, Office Politics