Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printers in striking. Five of the other unions had accepted the publishers' early offer when contracts ran out in 1964: a $4.10 weekly increase in health and welfare benefits in 1965; a $4.20 increase in pension payments in 1966; and no wage boost. The printers, who have a fatter pension fund than the other unions, balked. They demanded an immediate pay raise. As one printer on the picket line put it last week: "I'm only 25, and I want my lousy money...
...crowing that public-opinion polls show their candidate, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, neck and neck with Macapagal. Both candidates have published glowing biographies. The President's, entitled Macapagal-The Incorruptible, runs over 200 pages. His rival's, called For Every Tear a Victory, is not only fatter and more fulsome, but has been made into a film that runs for three weepy hours. A Manila critic described it as a trilogy: "The first part is about Marcos, the second part is about Marcos, and the third part is about Marcos...
...Harper's Bazaar are still the sophisticated pacesetters in the adult fashion world, offering far-out styles at far-out prices, the three younger magazines appeal to an ever-growing group of less well heeled but just as clothes-conscious younger women. Today the trio of magazines is fatter than ever and report record advertising revenues...
...income of $1,800 a year (v. $1,350 for Australians), Nauruans work hard at having fun. They cruise about in 800 cars and motorcycles, watch free movies, indulge in their traditional hobbies of taming frigate birds or man o' war hawks, and grow steadily lazier, happier and fatter (a 250-lb. Nauruan is considered well-rounded...
Sprat & Schilling. For the Soviets, who insisted on Austria's military neutrality in the treaty, it was a gamble, or, as one observer put it, "the Danubian sprat to catch a fatter German mackerel." But Germany has not reunited on the Austrian model, and Austria has become a thriving monument to capitalism. More than 80% of its soaring foreign trade is with the West, and the schilling is one of the free world's soundest currencies, backed 125% by gold and foreign-exchange reserves...