Word: humped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost accounting. If it reduces high taxes on inflation-bloated corporate profits, it frees funds for badly needed capital investment. And in a time of high inflation, he adds, ordinary depreciation "is much too little to replace plants. It's like a camel trying to live off its hump-O.K. for a while, but eventually starvation...
Reflected Richard afterward: "The first task I had to achieve was to try to put it over that they could trust me. I think we've got over that hump. I feel that Ian Smith feels exactly the same. If I can get the trust of the parties, then I can perform my real function, which is bridging." It is a function that Richard regards as essential for the success of the conference. "To be frank," he says, "what we'll be talking about around the table in the plenary sessions is less important than what...
...really very naive, of this pair of street-smart, macho New York adolescents. It's kind of culturally telling, you know, how they free associate from Turks and Indians to Native Americans and that most pious national holiday, Thanksgiving, then face off over whether or not their old ladies hump gobblers. The sociologist from HEW will tell us why Murph doesn't have anyone to go home to and devise training programs for sweet lady social workers so they don't give knives (for whittling wood) to hoodlums on a rap for slicing kids. Somewhere near the middle...
Whoever wins the great scrap of 1977, all the automakers are already at work down-sizing their cars for 1978 and later years. GM will reduce the size of its 1978 intermediates, then its 1979 compacts. The smallest cars will have front-wheel drive to eliminate the transmission-train "hump" that decreases back-seat leg room. Next spring Ford will trot out a pint-size Lincoln called the Versailles and in another year will be bringing over its subcompact Fiestas from Europe (TIME, July 12). In 1979 both Ford and Chrysler are expected to introduce new full-size models...
...accepted an invitation to speak for New York Congressman Herman Badillo, who was one of his most vicious attackers a few years ago. In 1968, Joe Rauh, who now describes Humphrey as a first-teamer, was part of the crowd outside the Chicago convention hall screaming: "Dump the Hump." Liberals have forgiven Humphrey, mostly because they have...