Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having been overcharged as far back as 1946, even though the original electrical-conspiracy cases covered only the 1956-60 period. The ruling stemmed from a clause in the law that suspends the statute of limitations (four years in antitrust cases) if plaintiffs can prove both that price-fixing had been practiced long before the indictment and had been "fraudulently concealed." Lawyers for the electrical-equipment companies offered an eyebrow-raising defense. They did not deny the price-fixing conspiracy but denied that it had been "fraudulently concealed." They contended, in effect, that customers knew about the fix but that...
...barn on four acres, and have a cash income from public welfare of $150 a month. "We have lived here for 50 years," said Mrs. Cutler. "We like it. I want to stay here until the good Lord takes me away. But I do wish that Mrs. Johnson would fix the roof. This old house leaks...
...says Sutherland, is "to catch and pin down the essence of that aspect of reality which moves me-to fix and mark out the shape of my sensations." Sutherland's sensations when he faces nature are far from rhapsodic. He is like a perverse Picasso run riot in a vegetable patch: he draws polyps plopping limply atop earthen walls, a skull looking as if it were a spider's web peering from a lattice of green leaves. Once he caught a huge toad, put it in a jar and made 50 drawings of it. "He was a very...
...Radcliffe's increasingly close connection with the University, but some important things have gotten lost. Someday, she hopes, there will be many more "things to do" at the Quad; everything from a large swimming pool, squash courts, and music and art work areas, to a shop where girls can fix their bicycles...
...bodily harm caused by the Mardi Gras festivities. Luck and nerve as well as experience are important, but Continental generally shuns such risks as traveling carnivals, stunt pilots and amateur parachutists. "We don't make snap decisions," says McKerrow. "We sit here for hours and discuss how to fix a rate, how to determine the hazards, and what our competitors might do in the same situation." The surge in high-risk insurance stems from many factors, nearly all of them connected with the pace of modern living. Faster air travel, more complicated machines and greater mobility have made Americans...