Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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British bankers have a reputation for being a stuffy lot. In the words of a Board of Trade commission, they run their banks "as a club for the benefit of members, not the public." They keep the most bankerish of bankers' hours, charge high rates for their services, and send their customers statements only once every three months. Small wonder that most adult Britons assiduously avoid checking accounts...
...remodeled to make their liquor-dispensing bars just as conspicuous as the familiar soda fountains. Such changes are aimed mainly at the 35-to-40 age group. "Our surveys show that these people are good spenders," says Shattuck. "They may not have very much money, but they spend a lot...
...beaming day, a father (Fred Astaire) and his daughter (Petula Clark) wander into a valley where white and cullud folks are jes a-sittin' and a-singin' and a-waitin' for somethin' to happen. Nothin' does. A leprechaun (Tommy Steele) wanders in, a lot of galvanic twitching goes on in the name of choreography, and eventually a white-supremacist Senator (Keenan Wynn) gets changed into a Negro. At the end, when everybody joins hands to shout out the coda, it is clear that this classic stage musical has wrinkled into senility. Perhaps, like the inhabitants...
...planning to institute coeducation in two to four years, but Ward said, "it is necessary now." He claimed that Yale is losing some of its best applicants to coeducational schools like Harvard, and has therefore had to lower its admissions standards. "We're not saying there's a lot of dummies [at Yale], but . . ." he shrugged...
...might as well be frank -- that's the difference between our generations, don't you think--I'm Jewish, and I've heard a lot about antisemitism in big companies like this. What's the real story, how would my religion affect my chances for advancement...