Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some sentimentalists, nursing a murky prevision of man as a fat smudge in a chair hovering before a cyclopean TV, with only his massive eyes and a few fingers intact for fixing the vertical hold or clutching a beer, will recall that the point of racing, after all, was once to stand in a crowd to watch actual horses running around the actual track or putting down actual cash at an actual betting window...
...narrow and exhilarating area of risk and give the same pleasure that rises from a daring work of engineering. His devotion to "rightness" gives his work a curiously moral edge. It is existential sculpture, the way that Norman Mailer's best novels and reportage are existential writing: no fat, no decor...
...credit, the Nixon Administration is trying many ways to boost productivity. Budget Chief George Shultz has called for the use of "productivity bargaining" in labor negotiations, tying wage boosts more closely to increased gains in output per man-hour. Since management will almost surely have to give labor a fat pay package in the current steel negotiations (see following story), the White House hopes that the companies will at least be able to win some reforms of work rules to stimulate productivity. President Nixon is also considering direct Government aid, in the form of subsidies or tax credits, to increase...
...that the economy is the voters' No. 1 worry on the home front, and that people are displeased with the way the President is handling the twin troubles of unemployment and inflation. Labor unionists, feeling particularly victimized by rising prices, are using their ultimate weapon to force fat wage increases. Last week half a million telephone and railroad workers marched out on strike. Last week, too, labor chiefs and leading Democrats sharply stepped up their offensive against Nixon's economic policies and spelled out more explicitly than ever their programs for change...
...takes Long Boy a while to realize just how gifted his precocious partner is. Cool and resourceful, she "smells out money like a honey bee smells out woodbine." Eventually he expands their operations. "Let's go ramify a big, fat farmer," he cries; and playing more on human greed than gullibility, he devises imaginative new swindles that net thousands. It takes nerve, but Addie thrives on "that crawly, goose-bumpy feeling I always got before we did business...