Word: credited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pompidou did win, in a brilliantly organized campaign. He, of course, got the credit and De Gaulle answered his own question nine days later in what seemed to be one of the most astonishing displays of ingratitude of his career: he dismissed his longtime friend as Premier. True to form, Pompidou seemed less disturbed by the news than anyone else; he simply removed his favorite modern oil paintings from Matignon, set up an office on the Left Bank and waited for life to come to him. Or seemed to wait. Actually, he made a point of keeping in close touch...
...absorbers of the economy," says Assistant Commerce Secretary William Chartener. "When business slows down, the first place it is felt is typically in profits." This year, companies will be paying higher social security taxes on top of the now extended 10% surcharge. If Congress repeals the 7% investment tax credit, that will further crimp earnings...
Instructions to be distributed with the "self-credit" cards say: "Carry the card in your wallet at all times . . . . At the very beginning of a meeting for settling any controversy, place your card on the table with those of others . . . . The mere fact that yours is on the table brings into play everyone's 'inner voice...
...group of individuals concerned with "bringing goodness back into the world" will distribute 18,000 "self-credit" cards on campus today...
...Wolfe's Americans--both in his essays and his cartoons--make their assault on the Cult of their choice with a frightening determination, at once both grim and fierce. What it all amounts to is a grand nervous breakdown on a nationwide scale. It's to Tom Wolfe's credit, that he makes such madness attractive, if not downright respectable...