Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other steel chiefs echoed Blough's theme. Chairman Arthur B. Homer of Bethlehem Steel, the second biggest producer, wrote the President that steelmen cannot avoid a price upcreep if "other forces contributing to inflation"-meaning the rising price of labor-"are allowed to go unchecked." President Thomas F. Patton of third-ranking Republic Steel wrote: "Your advisers seek to justify the freezing of current steel prices, regardless of inequities to our company. We are asked, in effect, to substitute their personal judgment for the known efficiency and fairness of the competitive marketplaces. This we cannot do." Said Chairman Avery...
...with Service. The cut-rate operators have learned that, as Cincinnati Discounter Homer Brown says, "you've got to offer something besides lower prices." What they are promising is better service, though volume is still their stock in trade, and they sometimes seemed to be offering 25% off for rudeness. Big discounters such as the East's E. J. Korvette, Inc., New York's Friendly Frost chain, and Chicago-based Goodman's Community Discount Stores are opening new branches with piped-in music and fancier displays to shuck off "that warehouse look," adding such customer lures...
...game of "philological solitaire." Had he used a computer, Allen could have done the job in twelve hours. So says Classicist James T. McDonough Jr., 27, of Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, who uses modern electronics to analyze Greek metrics. McDonough has done as much for Homer, and as a consequence of this odd work he can almost definitely answer an old scholarly question: Did one man or many men write the Iliad...
...Apollo). By the same token, this kind of word never once appears at mid-point in a line. Such evidence of stylistic consistency goes far to disprove the 19th century theory that many men wrote the Iliad. Scholars can still debate whether or not the author was Homer, but Computer Classicist McDonough hopes to solve another old mystery: Did the man who wrote the Iliad also write the Odyssey...
...need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus, and they raise her kid, and even though she's the most beautiful chick in the world, everything's cool...