Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatter Wage Hikes. The consumer's income this year will rise at least $40 billion, thanks to more jobs, higher pay and lots of overtime work, as well as higher interest rates on savings deposits, fatter social security checks and Medicare benefits. University of Michigan Economist George Katona, one of the nation's top consumer experts, says that consumers are worried about tight money and inflating prices-the cost of living jumped last month by another four-tenths of 1%, is 141% above the 1957-59 average. But they are still basically bullish. Reason: most of the thousands...
During the first third of November. Cadillac, Buick and Pontiac shattered sales records. The tendency of customers to trade up from lower-priced cars cheers most automakers because costlier cars bring fatter profit margins. But what worries the auto companies' big-picture men is that once a customer hankers to trade for something fancier, he may jump to the other firm's line. In October, sales of Ford Motor's middle-priced Mercurys fell 11%, to 33,000, and its Lincolns dropped 18%, to 7,300. For that reason Ford shifted drivers at its Lincoln-Mercury Division...
...resident Berkshire String Quartet, Indiana last year sponsored 501 musical events. Snaring topflight musicians is easy, says Indiana's Dean Wilfred Bain (with some exaggeration), because "people who push brooms are treated better than symphony players." Beyond that, the lures of the campus include more security, fatter pensions, sabbatical leaves, tenure, and salaries that match and often surpass those offered by the orchestras. For many, the chief attraction of a university post is simply a chance to catch one's breath. Admits Pittsburgh Symphony Conductor William Steinberg: "Playing in a university string quartet is a vacation compared...
...Martin, Joey Bishop, Ella Fitzgerald and Trini Lopez. Frank Sinatra, who interrupted a movie he is making in London to put on the show, crooned a few ballads and, taking leave of the Governor backstage, flew off in the Sinatra Enterprises plane, leaving the Brown campaign kitty $225,000 fatter. Not to be outdone, Reagan, himself a late-show idol (among his credits, Brown likes to remind voters, is Bedtime for Bonzo), will be getting support on the stump from the likes of John Wayne, Irene Dunne, Chuck Connors (The Rifleman), and Senator George Murphy...
Study of 18,000 men who attended Harvard between 1880 and 1916 indicates the fatter a man is, the more likely he is to have sons...