Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought into inventory before the prices rose. As much as $5 billion in windfall profits resulted. This happened at a time when the rest of the economy was plunging headlong into the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, and such cynical profit taking gave the oil companies a black eye. Few can forget how, in their annual reports for 1974, the oil companies showed hefty increases in their profits over the preceding year: Exxon up 28.6%, Gulf up 33%, Mobil...
...away from home, the evil of deductibility may have taken root right in downtown Plains. Charles Dennis thinks that most of his Back Porch patrons are tourists. But now and then he sees a table of men looking suspiciously like businessmen. Dennis serves up his baked ham and red-eye gravy, grits, green beans, carrots, buttermilk biscuits and coffee, passes out the tabs ($2.50 a head) and asks nary a question...
...innovations for enhancing primary care were a pet project of Ebert, the issue that puts an eager glint in Tosteson's eye is innovation in teaching. Tosteson points out that "the amount of information potentially relevant to the work of a physician, considering the broad spectrum of roles possible, is infinite for all practical purposes." "I take 'teaching' to mean promoting, encouraging and catalyzing learning," he says. "I do not believe that verb means transferring from the mind of the teacher to the mind of the student some bits" of information, he adds...
...authorities to hasten the resolution of the charges pending against him, and to publicize his alternative detoxification treatment. He adds that he is still weighing a lawsuit against the National Computer Information Center, but has taken no serious action thus far. In the meantime, Humes keeps a close eye on the daily papers for information on drug shipments and fluetuations in the gold market. Humes draws a correlation between them based on the contention that most large-scale purchases of heroin are made with gold. The issue of drugs--their medical use as well as their recreational abuse--is destined...
Television coverage too had much to answer for. It only bore witness to, it did not instigate, Senator Percy's nasty innuendoes about tax evasion by Lance, and Percy's subsequent smarmy retraction. Moreover, TV's steady eye on the hearings produced what no amount of print reporting could do: a dramatic switch of public sympathy to Lance, who, despite the damaging admissions he had to make, carried himself more impressively under relentless scrutiny than any other congressional witness within memory...