Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sterile being. He has functions and duties, not personality and ideas. And so the university president, straight-jacketed by his far-reaching responsibility and by constant faculty pressures, is colorless. Dodds talks only parenthetically about the joys of the office, about communicating with people, about activating ideas, about the myriad parts of the presidential personality and potential that fall under no specific "function." Dodds' president does not look forward to impending crises with gusto or glee; he does not seek to use his office or his power; he does not improve the strong, only patches up the weak. There...
USSR, much more clever, attempts to sweeten the pill itself, by avoiding inflammatory statements and using a very soft-sell of the myriad delights in the Workers' Paradise. Unfortunately, subtlety is not the Russians' forte. USSR at its best is an informative, mildly interesting pictorial magazine; at its worst it is almost a self-parody of Communist propaganda. Finally, Poland, a truly fine publication, has merely set about producing a good magazine, in the hope that sympathy for Poland will develop among its readers as a matter of course...
...With myriad trouble to worry about at, home, Khrushchev seemed almost willing to think about being reasonable abroad...
Unlike the tax credit, a speedup in depreciation write-offs does not require congressional approval. By early summer, Treasury tax men expect to finish the monumental job of revising their rulings on the useful life of each of the myriad varieties of machinery used by U.S. industry. The shorter useful-life rulings will allow businessmen to deduct the purchase price of machinery from their income tax in larger chunks-and hence leave them with more after-tax cash to buy still more machinery. Though other industries are unlikely to get the whopping 40% depreciation speedup already accorded the hard-pressed...
...scheme may actually save the House some money, has brought Cambridge some of the sweetest tidings in years. It will not be long, one hopes, before this genuinely inspired spark burns in Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop also, and the Central Kitchens system, its pretense at tolerable cuisine, and its myriad indignities are done away with forever...