Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Department, it was decided, would be the best channel to disseminate research money. The department had good relations with Congress, and in the huge defense budgets an item like pure research subsidies would be easily obscured...
...item on gambling [Oct. 27] invites my observation: in throwing dice, the faces with more than three points come up, on the average, a bit more often than can be expected statistically. The physics of this: where the "holes" are more in number the faces are lighter. Accordingly, the center of gravity favors the 1-2-3 faces, and the faces 6-5-4, which are just opposite, come up. The potential energy of a system tends toward least. Physics or no physics, the theorem holds for your wallet...
...face cream-we could not give it away, we couldn't sell it for 15?. At $1, there'd be a certain group of customers; at $3, an even wider number of customers-certainly more than at 15?." Why? Summed up a psychoanalyst: "An item that promises a fantasy has to be priced fantastically...
...announced last month-in line with the rest of the industry-anticipated many of the labor costs. If Reuther's $800 million package was more than the company had projected, prices may be raised once again at year's end, when shoulder harnesses become a mandatory safety item...
...trouble is that Bobbie must improve on Billy, admittedly a masterpiece but not enough of one to cinch the revolution in pop music that it portends. In any case, it is dangerous to underrate Bobbie Gentry, and her initial album might well qualify as a collector's item...