Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelming Tory vote in a predominantly urban area of that size partially reflects a working-class protest against wage freezes and other austerity measures imposed by the Wilson government. Without doubt, the elections also gave many Laborites the chance to express their dissatisfaction without having to go so far as to turn Labor out of Parliament. But the fact that the To ries also won control of ten other local councils in last week's voting across the country showed that the shift was as much pro-Tory as it was antiLabor...
Mortuaries & Teeny-Boppers. Though basically kin to such familiar cards as American Express and Diners Club, bank credit cards aim more at the ordinary needs of middle-income families than at travel and expense-account entertainment by executives. In a few cities, doctors, dentists and veterinarians already accept bank cards; in Chicago, several mortuaries and ambulance services have signed up, and at the city's Cheetah Twistadrome Boutique, teeny-boppers allowed access to their parents' cards can even charge their miniskirts and papier-mâché earrings...
...bank within 30 days. After that, the banks usually collect a highly profitable 1½%-a-month interest on the balance. Merchants who agree to honor the cards usually pay a 5% discount to exchange their charge slips for cash from the banks (v. up to 7% through American Express). In parts of the Midwest, competition has driven the rate down to 3%, but even that is not quite low enough to attract major retailers, who have a heavy investment in their own credit setups. President M. E. Arnett of Los Angeles' Bullock's Magnin suggests that...
...lower taxes. "If you happen to be an unmarried woman novelist running a liquor store and supporting a widowed mother who does part-time work, with a passion for motorbikes and wanting to buy a house this autumn for ?5,500 then this is your budget," sniffed the Daily Express...
...result of a John Winthrop-like examination of conscience, but rather a garment that for one reason or another, perhaps social or psychological, was congenial. Inconsistencies don't bother these people. "The cool-looking types I now met at cocktail parties never seemed to find it odd to express the most revolutionary opinions against the most luxurious backgrounds. It was as if they were demonstrating, more than their new principles, the detached intelligence that had made them executives in the first place. They were the harbingers of the new society, but meanwhile they were bosses...