Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks even fatter for the Middies. Bill Wright has a 2:12.5 effort to his credit, more than a second faster than the winning Heptagonal time last year posted by 1964 Harvard captain Ed Meehan. If Wright can equal that time today, he's a winner...
Many professors, says Gardner, think that "students are just impediments in the headlong search for more and better grants, fatter fees, higher salaries, higher rank." Catering to these professors, universities often relieve them of almost all teaching. "Needless to say, such faculty members do not provide the healthiest models for graduates thinking of teaching as a career." Gardner insists that professors and college officials must "behave as though undergraduate teaching is important." Typically, they might emulate the salary incentives and status benefits that a few worried universities, such as U.C.L.A., are offering to faculty members who are notably engrossed with...
Thanks to "the seemingly limitless supply of research funds, consulting opportunities, easy promotions and dazzling offers," he said, some young scholars "exhibit an opportunism that startles their elders. . . .In their view students are just impediments in the headlong search for more and better grants, fatter fees, higher salaries, higher rank...
...soft-drink industry is growing fatter on-of all things-diet drinks. With Americans consuming an average of 227 bottles each per year, the soft-drink bottlers have upped their sales 64% in the last five years, to a record $2.3 billion. Sales are expected to rise another 10% this year, and the hottest item in the boost will be the diet drinks, which are expected to go up at least 50% above their 1963 sales of $200 million. More than two dozen diet drinks are fighting for a share of the growing market...
...some other industries. Detroit anticipates that Reuther will seek a wage raise on top of the annual boost of 2.5% or 6? an hour-whichever is higher-that the auto companies already award for higher productivity. A still more important issue will be his demand for earlier retirement and fatter pensions. The rank and file have been pressing their leaders for a plan to cut mandatory retirement age from 68 to 65, to reduce the voluntary retirement age from 60 to something less and to raise pensions to a minimum of $400 a month, including social security benefits...