Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final fillip to good relations, G.E. said it would reopen its contract at the end of three years for a 30-day review of the guaranteed annual wage. G.E. announced that it would undoubtedly still oppose the idea, but would be glad to sit down and talk in a spirit of mutual cooperation. Said G.E.'s Boulware: "We are maturing into a kind of relationship that people ought to have. After all, we are dealing with a $1.2 billion payroll that affects 500,000 people. This is serious and it ought to be handled in a businesslike...
...million from two food companies now owned by Childs. By putting all companies under one corporate roof, Sonnabend will make a fat tax saving. He will be able to de duct Childs' losses from the hotels' profits (1954: about $2,000,000), thereby add a king-sized fillip to his earnings...
...secretary. That is to say, it is never for a moment soppily romantic: against a sophisticated Manhattan background, with flecks of satiric nonsense in the air, the parties concerned keep sex at fingernail's distance in the process of arriving at marriage. There is also a modern-style fillip to the plot: by way of a TV program, the secretary becomes her boss's boss for a day-and starts him off mixing the drinks, cleaning the apartment and doing the laundry...
...from the Federal Reserve. The Administration also wisely abandoned, at least temporarily, its determination to balance the budget, prepared to accept a $4.7 billion deficit in the current fiscal year. With its new housing law, which cut down-payment requirements and liberalized Government mortgage insurance, the Government gave a fillip to the housing industry...
Sometimes native table rules add a certain fillip to the art of dining. When he was in the Middle East, says Jim Bell, he found that whole roasted sheep eaten Bedouin style (i.e., with hands only) is guaranteed to satisfy the hungriest man alive. The only problem is one of etiquette: the guest of honor is supposed to eat the sheep's eyeballs. Keith Wheeler, now on Bell's former beat, likes an Iranian dish of young lamb and rice called tchelo kebab, "which Iran should have nationalized instead...