Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international scene, where it has assumed many heavy burdens since World War II. Were it not for the commitments that it has made to help other nations prosper and to build up the defenses of the free world, the U.S. would be able to boast a nice fat payments credit. With that in mind, many economic thinkers are seriously examining what steps might be taken to improve the balance of payments, short of the undesirable measures of devaluing the dollar or imposing controls on capital movements. Among the possibilities that might be explored...
...fast becoming the hangouts for teenagers that corner drugstores used to be-with a considerable difference. In the dark of their cars, boys and girls can do more than consume hamburgers and milkshakes, and many an adult buys liquor and brings it to a drive-in to sell at fat profits to the underaged from the back...
...Mature Market. The machinery firm that Ontario Farmer Daniel Massey founded in 1847- grew with the U.S. and Canadian West, scored a major competitive triumph in 1939 by producing the first self-propelled combine. In the lush years just after World War II. it made fat profits on the strength of pent-up demand for farm equipment, but as demand shrank, it piled up a $182 million inventory of unsold machines...
...never met a journalist who knew anything about agriculture," said Khrushchev. He showed Salinger a pond full of carp. "I guess they don't know the Chairman of the Party is here," grumbled the Party Chairman when no fish broke the surface. But at that one fat carp came...
...asked why amateur tennis was floundering, the sport's white-flanneled bigwigs have had the same answer: Jack Kramer-king of the professionals, enemy of amateurism, exploiter of the sport. As boss of a touring troupe of play-for-pay pros, Kramer was luring away top amateurs with fat contracts and destroying the game's appeal...