Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accent on Impulse. Mayhew believes that the 1980 curriculum will accent the liberal arts, de-emphasize purely fact-oriented courses. It will also deal with the emotional development of students and what Mayhew terms their "impulse life," as well as with "the big, perplexing questions of mankind." Technical and vocational training will be discarded from the undergraduate curriculum; corporate employers will supply that in a modern version of the apprentice system. Not only will most U.S. students spend a year abroad, but their home campuses will become "as international in flavor as were the medieval universities of the 13th century...
...equally intense passion for the underdog. He is an aggressive, blunt-spoken reporter who makes it clear that no one is going to put anything over on him. When he does business with the sordid characters who sell him stories, he tells them: "One damn lie and the whole deal is off." And few facts in Huie's exposes have ever been disproved...
...took Wall Street by surprise. Negotiations had been secretly carried on in suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., where both Loew's Chairman Laurence A. Tisch and Lorillard Chairman Manuel Yellen live. Meeting at the Tisch home in Scarsdale, Tisch and Yellen were able to work out within one week a deal by which Lorillard's product line (Kent, True, Newport, Old Gold and Spring cigarettes, Tabby cat food and Reed candies) will join the 14 hotels and 110 theaters controlled by Tisch and a younger brother. The merged company, which will have combined annual sales of more than $700 million...
Only slightly less devastating are the weapons of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) that are already within the reach of contemporary warriors. Sophisticated and sinister, CBW can be waged in many ways. There are gases that can incapacitate an opponent temporarily or deal him a quick, mortal blow. A few pounds of LSD in a city's water supply could theoretically send the entire population helplessly tripping. Entire nations could be infected with strange, drug-resistant diseases spread by a handful of immunized saboteurs...
...Used Deals. Other phrases have also lain fallow for decades before being well turned again for a new generation of voters. F.D.R.'s "New Deal" was Prime Minister David Lloyd George's campaign slogan of 1919, and Robert La Follette used it in 1924. But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866. Otherwise the phrase is probably as old as card games...