Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally, back in 1972, it was to cost a mere $47.9 million. So far, $85 million has been appropriated (and $16 million spent). Earlier this month, the Senate voted to impose a ceiling of $135 million on the project. But opponents claim that the eventual cost will be $200 million. That would make the Senate's new palace the most expensive Government office building ever created...
Though they are out of sight, the mere presence of Soviet troops on Czechoslovak soil has created a palpable sense of oppression. Husák's nonstop propaganda mill, justifying the troops as well as the invasion itself, has virtually deadened Czechoslovak sensibilities. The result, reports Aikman, is that most of the country has settled into an apathetic limbo. After 1968, the new regime purged 326,817 members, from the Czechoslovak Communist Party; today, having re-expanded, it claims 1.9 million members, vs. 1.7 million in 1968. Former First Secretary Dubček, now 56, is a watchman...
When he was in his early 40s, a mere stripling, Nicholas Deak parachuted into the Burmese jungles and the Balkans on many spooky missions as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Now, in his early 70s, Deak has slowed down only a bit. He runs-not jogs, runs-three to five miles every morning on his own track at his estate in suburban New York. Then he is chauffeured to the global headquarters of Deak & Co., in the Deak-Perera Building near Wall Street, where he directs the largest foreign exchange business...
...eminent goldbug, a professional pessimist, Deak understands the psychology of people who have lost faith in mere money and paper shares. Critics, including many stockbrokers, say that Deak has a great 17th century mind, that his views would make Marie Antoinette look like Bella. Abzug. But his opinions are important, since so many nervous people share them...
Humans, true, have tried to evade or minimize risk ever since man first ducked into a cave to elude the sabertooth. Ancient Babylonia invented marine insurance, but notoriously litigious Americans have always wanted more than mere insurance. As soon as the automobile became popular, the motoring public began to develop what San Francisco Liability Lawyer Scott Conley calls the belief that "there must be a pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." Now the old litigious spirit has become almost a reflex. Malpractice suits against doctors are epidemic. The volume of damage suits, doubling in some jurisdictions...