Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is an immutable law that says extra wealth can only be produced by each person exceeding his own needs in whatever he produces. Just as a farmer must grow more than his family eats in order to have something to sell, so must the factory worker turn out more value every hour than his hourly wage amounts to. The solution to the problems of rising costs and falling productivity is to put everyone back on either piecework or commission. This will eliminate featherbedding, slowdowns, etc., and at the same time raise our productivity nationwide...
...weather, ten children, nine of them running, leaping, screaming and fighting. Baby can't walk, thank God. Father in absolute coma, doesn't see, hear anything but football game. Mother a pitiful, broken creature, swilling beer (small town, no LSD available) making dinner; will they ever stop, grow up, sit down? Finally, 6:55. Mother sits down with Sunday papers. Children settle down. Cut to Heidi, end of game on television. Father goes completely berserk. Tough, there are eleven of us, and only...
...fedayeen continue to grow, they could so embitter an already desperate situation that a peace settlement might become impossible and a new war likely. To avoid such a showdown, Washington may be forced to reconsider its official policy of leaving the Israelis and Arabs to settle their own affairs and join with the Russians in an attempt to impose a peace settlement. The Administration already feels that Israel's discussions of various plans for settling occupied territories is a diplomatic blunder, reinforcing Arab claims that Israel is bent on expansion and likely to bring on irresistible popular demands...
...doesn't go anywhere. Jimmy Shine is a transparent character: to see him once is to know him totally. He is a luckless misadventurer, a congenital flunker in the school of life, a born loser with a ready quip for a pick-me-up. Jimmy Shine does not grow, change, or develop, he simply recapitulates himself...
After a survey of businessmen's plans, the investment-advisory firm of Lionel D. Edie & Co. predicted that capital investment in 1969 will grow more than 7%. Last month the McGraw-Hill Survey projected an 8% gain. In its December issue, FORTUNE suggested that capital spending may rise 5% next year, though the increase might just about match the rise in capital-goods prices. Last week the Government joined the chorus of optimism. In the latest of a series of generally reliable surveys, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission projected a growth...