Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the spiral starts, it develops a self-accelerating momentum. Union members, dismayed by the extent to which inflation eats away their pay gains, clamor for ever fatter wage increases. Businessmen borrow with abandon to build bigger inventories and more factories than they need, figuring that everything will cost more tomorrow. When this "inflationary psychology" takes hold, only drastic action can break...
...showed how costly it will be to meet labor's demands this year: during the next 39 months, teamsters' wages are scheduled to rise $1.10 an hour, or about 27%, for 450,000 union members. At week's end Chicago teamsters were holding out for a fatter increase...
...selling short-term commercial paper. Treasury bills, and Eurodollars -even for a weekend. Financial vice presidents and accountants, always key men in management, are becoming increasingly important. Some companies use creative accounting maneuvers to raise their short-term profits-for example, amortizing over several years costs that in fatter times were simply deducted from profits all at once. "I have never known a period in which clients have made more ingenious suggestions," says a partner in a Manhattan accounting firm...
...Passion for Novelty, Change, and Variation in Produce and Animal Husbandry, this Colony had brought Nature to her Knees. Kneeling Nature was forced by cruel and often desperate Means continually to conceive new, and yet more bizarre Progeny: Nectarines or Peas without Pods, seedless Watermelons or Corns without Cobs, fatter Cows and Porkier Pigs, plumper Chickens and more caged Cocks...