Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIGGING THROUGH the fatter-than-ever course catalogue, the Humanities situation looks discouraging, at best. General Education is in a sad state of limbo, and the Humanities may be suffering the most. Dean Rosovsky's commission to reinvestigate undergraduate education should not simply look for remedies for the ills of an outdated system of General Education, but attempt to rebuild the entire structure that is presently in ruin...
Democrats: Either outright gasoline rationing or a gasoline tax increase of up to 100 per gal. or mandatory allocation of oil and other sources of energy-or some combination of those options. Also, fatter excise taxes on big cars...
...countries have long suffered from high inflation because they were living beyond their means for years. Particularly in the West's mass-consumer societies, the poor wanted to live like the middle class, and the middle class wanted to live like the rich. Demands piled up?for more goods, fatter wages, higher social welfare?and prices soared. Still, by best estimates, the rise in energy prices caused one-quarter to one-third of the world's inflation last year. As the price of oil increased, it kicked up the prices of countless oil-based products, including fertilizers, petrochemicals and synthetic...
...what is perhaps the most poignant scene in the movie, Cohen sits down with Duddy in the sauna of his country club and lectures him on the risks and pitfalls of the business world. Cohen's face is fatter, his eyes puffier, his hair thinner, but underneath he is a 45-year-old Duddy, playing the same game. All the failures, the deadends, the shameful deeds accumulated over decades have done nothing to wean Cohen from a world where all behavior is governed by passions. "Listen, Duddy," he tells Kravitz through the steam sauna, "it's not all wine...
...most of last year, the average worker's pay has been running behind prices. The energy crisis has heightened union discontent, kicking prices even higher, and in some cases costing jobs. Thus rank-and-file members are putting the heat on their leaders to go after much fatter settlements, even though that would further balloon prices...