Word: fattener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown game always represented nothing more than a tune-up for Yale. In the past it was a game for the stars to fatten up their stats and for the bench warmers to get their big chance...
...forcing consumers and industry to burn less petroleum. The President's latest plan-to lift the controls over a period of 39 months, with the major impact coming after the November 1976 elections-was voted down in July. Many Democrats have deep ideological objections to price rises that fatten oil-company profits. At the same time, the Democrats have no agreed strategy for forcing energy conservation and curtailing imports. Alternative ideas -rationing, import quotas, stiff taxes on energy usage-cannot survive even a congressional vote, let alone a veto...
...Interstate Commerce Commission often require vans to return from their destinations empty, rather than let them pick up an available load. The National Commission on Productivity estimates that elimination of these rules could save $250 million per year. Though some of these and other potential savings might go to fatten stores' profits, chances are that because the supermarket business is hotly competitive, a large share would be passed on to consumers...
This is A. & P.'s second major effort recently to fatten profits. Early in 1972, to boost the drooping sales, the chain began converting all its stores to discount outlets under the all-but-abandoned WEO ("Where Economy Originates") program. The first year it lost $51 million. Since 1973, it has been back in the black, but it may show a loss for its most recent quarter. Profit margins have shrunk to less than half of the 1? on a dollar that the company had traditionally earned. Part of the problem has been A. & P.'s inclination...
...fiction. He is disdainful of formal literary criticism, claiming it has led to a strain of obscurity in fiction in the United States. The critics, academic mandarins in Bretnor's terms, have advanced the concepts of obscurity so that they alone could interpret fiction and poetry, and in turn fatten their paychecks with their reviews. Through the critics, Bretnor contends. American poetry became "formless, unreadable and unintelligible," and the short story was "devitalized into the non-story." With science fiction reaching the college campuses, Bretnor writes...