Word: householder
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...churchmen, food he couldn't put ketchup on and sex during daytime hours. He bullied his "dingbat" wife Edith and bemoaned his "weepin' Nellie atheist" daughter Gloria. Above all, he clashed with his liberal, long-haired son-in-law Mike Stivic, a "Polack pinko meathead" living in the Bunker household while working his way through college...
...first hove into view on a "Family" episode last season. The entire Bunker family fell ill and Maude took over the household ? especially Archie ("You can either get up off that couch and eat your breakfast or lie there and feed off your own fat ... and if you choose the latter you can probably lie there for months"). The CBS brass was watching and, in Norman Lear's words, "saw a star." A second episode ? in effect a pilot ? was concocted, in which Archie and Edith visited Maude on the eve of her daughter's wedding...
...Household candles...
...outright recession should be short-lived, thanks to recent Federal Reserve rate cuts and rebate checks of up to $600 a household that families can expect by September, compliments of last month's $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut. (Singles without kids will receive about $300.) Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley, says that while a recession may have got under way in the spring, the rebates should underwrite modest growth by this fall. (A recession is commonly viewed as two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP.) Says Berner: "It's likely to be the shortest and mildest [contraction...
...collapse of investment leaves it to U.S. consumers to take up the economic slack. They have done that so far despite a tech-stock implosion that has reduced household wealth and caused ceaseless price gyrations on Wall Street. Consumer spending has contributed some 90% of GDP growth in recent quarters. And consumers stand to get a big boost from what Berner calls "the most stimulative set of economic policies that we've seen in two decades"--a reference to the tax cut and the five interest-rate reductions the Fed has made since January. While tax rebates in the past...