Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that no male names suggesting culture and intelligence were listed? Is this another example of our sexist society's attitude that males are merely sex symbols or meal tickets...
Across the American farm belt, homemade signs are sprouting up faster than soybeans in June. They are posted on idle tractors, trucks and combines, on the sides of barns and the walls of farm cooperative offices. NO DEAL, NO MEAL, they proclaim. Or NO PAY, NO HAY. Or FOR YOUR NEXT BAG OF SUGAR, CALL FIDEL. Blunt and pithy, they capture perfectly the mood of America's angry, embattled farmers...
...write, he explained to students at a dinner several years ago, he manipulates his personal environment just as he does the environment of the pigeons that he wants to play ping-pong. He adjusts temperature and humidity in the writing room to optimal levels. He dangles some reward--a meal, for instance--in front of himself and lets himself eat only when his allotted writing stint is completed. The writing of a Skinner work is the culmination of years of behavioral preparation. Skinner takes copious notes on many of his thoughts and actions and then files them in his extensive...
Carter is most likely to accept a recommendation that only half the price of a business meal may be treated as a legitimate expense and thus deducted from a company's pretax income. And that is the least drastic of three alternatives he is considering. Another is to set a limit on deductions of $15 a person per meal...
...expense-account meal stretches an executive's time by enabling him to conduct business over a lunch table, and the atmosphere in many restaurants, where both host and guest are on neutral turf and no phones ring, affords a more congenial setting for discussion than an office. In many companies, the expense account is also a perk for executives who have earned at least limited discretion over how they spend their time and the company's money. Manhattan Public Relations Man John Scanlon makes a wry complaint: "It took me all my life to get into the eating...