Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price prop; Government stockpile purchases have tended to keep commodity prices from falling. The reserves now comprise not only 15 strategic metals such as aluminum and tin but dozens of anything-but-strategic materials, including even 1,500 tons of feathers. Stockpiling policy in general "is a national joke," says Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and former adviser to Lyndon Johnson. "We worked like hell in the 1960s to get the stockpiles down. Most of the pressure against reducing them came from industry, anxious to restrict the supply of certain commodities...
Gill delivered a lengthy, often-interrupted speech on the virtues of male chauvinism, and gave an award for "the best Radcliffe joke." However, he said he was disappointed "with the way the dinner turned out." "I wanted this to be a humorous occasion," he said...
...Joke Prize...
...Bert Englebert Award, a joke award initiated five years ago, was given to Goodenow. The award, which one fan called "possibly the ugliest and most useless trophy ever devised," shows a hockey player wearing rolling skates and set to take a slap shot even though he has no stick...
...Theatrical Impresario Joseph Papp, last week was like a goodnews, bad-news joke. On one hand, he broadened his institutional base enough to make him the most powerful man in the American theater. On the other hand, one of his fondest dreams-to bring good drama to millions of people on nationwide TV-was given a stunning blow...