Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford seemed determined to resist these pressures. He sought vice-presidential suggestions from 5,427 delegates, party leaders and officeholders round the country. He also dispatched fat envelopes, seeking voluminous personal information from at least 21 prospects. Certainly, Ford was tossing about many more names than could really be under consideration. Among those frequently mentioned were: Governors Robert Ray of Iowa, Daniel Evans of Washington and Christopher Bond of Missouri, Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, Congressman John Anderson of Illinois, Treasury Secretary William Simon, former Treasury Secretary Connally and U.N. Ambassador William Scranton...
...Reza Baraheni describes one of the men who tortured him in Iran's notorious Committee Prison, where Baraheni was held without charge for 102 days in 1973. Baraheni, who now lives in exile in New York City, recognized in torturers like Azudi the "typical thick-necked Iranian jahel [ignoramus], fat and tall and dirty and, at the same time, shrewd, irrevocable, irresistibly virile and strong." Azudi insisted that prisoners address him with the honorific title "doctor," as do equally brutal thugs who run torture centers in Brazil and did so formerly in Greece. The title, apparently, confers on the torturer...
...there is sharp disagreement among experts about whether businessmen will take the big capital-spending plunge. Irwin Kellner, vice president and economist of Manhattan's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., believes that they will. He notes that sales at many companies are up, cash reserves are fat and the outlook for continued growth seems inviting. In those circumstances, Kellner argues, an increase in capital spending is probable...
...Opinion polls suggest that a majority of the public believes that corporations earn much more than they actually do, and favor higher taxes on profits. Hence, it would behoove Americans, too, to rid their minds of what Samuelson characterizes as the suspicion that profits are "an exploitative surplus which fat men with an unfair penchant for arithmetic skim from the gross national product...
Kety added he attended the last ICF conference and liked the openess and "excellent philosophical discussions." But, he said, this "chewing the fat isn't exactly my dish...