Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this August Among the white silks puffed by wind, The garden music shrunk by the outdoor distances, The nylon tent in which tiny sandwiches are served, Wed imagine the fat man Reflected in those dark mirrors upside down...
...indifferent to the fat man's pleasure in the couple, To the woman in the arms she most desires...
...Lost Fat. So far. only a minority of U.S. companies use computers this way. When a majority get around to it, the average size of business inventories (which has declined from 47 days' supply on hand six years ago to 44 days' supply now) should be cut further. For the economy as a whole, this should be all to the good. Though cautious inventory buying has contributed to the sluggishness of the latest recovery, it may make the next downturn less severe, because businessmen will have less inventory fat to work off before they must start stocking...
Wonderland Economics. The general slowdown is making for some unfamiliar strains in the payments balances of many countries. Europe's huge hoard of gold and dollar reserves is dropping. West Germany recently moved from a fat surplus to a small deficit in international payments, and the surpluses of Belgium and Switzerland are declining. And in a time when everyone talks of expanding markets, Japan has clamped on import controls and Canada has raised many of its tariffs from 5% to 15% in an attempt to bolster its sagging dollar. It seemed that almost all countries were attempting to improve...
...with a warm, friendly, electrically operated glint to her eye, she limits herself to 6,000 to 8,000 words a day. She does a monthly "inspirational" column for Woman's Day and one book a year. The women's magazines are declining, and the days of fat prices for serials are over, but the Baldwin prose still reads the same. The married pair in The West Wind are pretty Meg and darkly attractive Davy. He is a successful, 38-year-old sales manager with a fine dog and unfailing friends, but he and Meg have no children...