Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling mannerisms, whether of a Chicago sharpie, a Virginia gentleman, or a Brooklyn butcher. Their most extraordinary act is to ask an audience for two lines of dialogue, then proceed to improvise a scene on the spot, using one line as the start and the other line as the end. Furthermore, they will produce the dialogue in any literary style the audience suggests-Proust or Erskine Caldwell, Li'l Abner or Samuel Beckett. (A Faulknerian bit by Elaine: "And there she was feeling her armpits-glad that they were there...
...personally knew a physician who had done, he estimated, 40,000 abortions in 50 years. One of the main problems of the conference was to find out how many abortions are performed annually in the U.S. Commonly accepted figures run from 200,000 to 1,200,000. In the end, the experts could only agree that the number must be astronomical...
...when unemployment was about as high, prices declined only .5%. In short, prices are growing more and more rigid. Unemployment stands at 7.5% of the labor force, yet prices are still climbing. Last month they hit an alltime record 123.5 on the index, and no real end to the upward spiral is in sight...
...agency, such as a permanent Wage and Price Commission, which would gather accurate statistics, compute the effects of wage-price increases, and formulate standards for government policy. Economists such as the University of Chicago's Albert E. Rees would also like to see the Government itself put an end to price-boosting devices, e.g., farm price supports, tariffs and import quotas that shelter inefficient domestic producers. Said he: "If the Government is to condemn private enterprise for using rigid prices, it should itself cease being the greatest single source for price rigidity in the economy...
...manacles snapping around his own wrists. Signing on for 10% of the gross, Holden, to keep taxes down, forced Columbia to add a clause providing payment in sums not exceeding $50,000 a year. So far, so shrewd-but Kwai has already grossed $8,500,000, is expected to end up with at least $25 million; 40-year-old Bill Holden will not be fully paid until he is 90. Columbia can earn $90,000 a year by investing Holden's money...