Word: limpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more and more production machinery inevitably becomes outdated, many companies limp on without replacing it because stringent tax depreciation laws make it difficult to get enough cash to modernize. Treasury Under Secretary Henry H. Fowler concedes that U.S. tax write-off allowances "are probably among the most limited in the world." Last week President Kennedy brought welcome relief to the textile industry-one of the most hampered by antiquated machines-by allowing it to concentrate its write-offs in as little as twelve years v. more than 25 years previously. Furthermore, said Kennedy, Treasury tax experts are studying the possibility...
Hearst's "sure instinct for vulgarity" found first expression on the San Francisco Examiner, a limp rag that his father, George, who had made millions in mining, had taken over on a bad debt. In 1887, at 23, ambitious Willie wheedled the Examiner from his parent. In his very first issue, he ran a tearjerker on Page One about foundlings in a lying-in hospital, together with a juicy story about the trials of one Job Cram-whose affliction was a heavy-drinking wife. Hearst also wooed his readers with sure-fire crusades, among them a protracted campaign against...
...aging Roman centurion's efforts to win a Catalan coquette long after the decline of the Roman Empire had doomed to failure any such suit. The singers struggled against impossible odds. Three more curtain-size Dali tableaux fell, each full of the usual Dalian symbols: butterflies, breasts, limp watches and legions of crutches...
...Limping Along. It was not the happiest of awakenings. Ben-Gurion found that though his Mapai Party remained the most powerful in the nation, it had lost five of its 47 seats in the 120-member Knesset. He called the vote a "victory" for Mapai but a "disaster" for Israel. Long opposed to the nation's proportional representation (he wants a U.S.-style two-party system), Ben-Gurion explained: "I've often said that, for me, 40 or 60 seats in the Knesset is the same thing. Only with a majority of 61 can the electoral system...
Pearl Fishers' most conspicuous weakness is the one that plagued Bizet through much of his career-a limp libretto. Laid in Ceylon, it has to do with a colony of Indian pearl fishermen, two of whom are in love with a mysterious local priestess. After three talky acts, one of the suitors is stabbed by four priests, and the surviving principals make off to where "happiness awaits us yonder." Most productions follow the original Paris staging, in which the fishing village became as elaborate as a movie set, and the fishermen went about like oriental chieftains in turbans...