Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scattered liberally throughout the palatial pad are some $200,000 worth of marble columns, doorways and stairs, and an ample supply of golden bathroom fixtures. Beneath the veneer of Old World elegance, the house has the very latest in electronic gadgetry: radiant wires heat up at the mere touch of a toe on a bathroom floor; an intercom system connects every room...
Dreamy Clout. At Dentsu, that could be more than mere hyperbole. The diligence of the 5,000-person work force is legendary, and the lights of the agency's 15-story glass-and-concrete head quarters near Tokyo's Ginza regularly glow late into the night. Competing admen joke that "the first people on the streets each morning are the ragpickers - and Dentsu men hurrying to work." In seeking new business, the firm's account executives are the most aggressive in Japan; they often refer to calls on prospective clients as attacks. Each summer a group...
Sophomore Hess Yntema turned in the meet's most impressive swim. He captured the 200-yd. freestyle with a clocking of 1:43.8. That time is a mere one-second slower than the University record held by Harvard co-captain Fred Mitchell...
...change of mind on inflation has been even more striking. As late as 1969, Nixon Administration economists thought that the U.S. could and should hold price increases over the long run to an average of a mere 2% a year. Some critics believed 3% to be a more realistic figure. But at a recent meeting of TIME'S Board of Economists, Banker Beryl Sprinkel reluctantly counseled acceptance of "a rather perpetual, sizable inflation on the order of 5%" yearly. In a recent poll taken among some members of the American Economic Association, no fewer than 43% forecast that inflation...
...embargo were fully effective, they should be cutting production drastically by now. Yet the Texaco refinery has reduced by only 60,000 bbl. a day-to 140,000 bbl.-the amount of petroleum products it ships to the U.S. Amerada Hess has cut residual oil production a mere...