Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consumer has behaved nobly. With his income at an alltime high, he has continued to spend 93% of all he earns after taxes, and has gone into debt to the extent of 14% of his net earnings-very near the point at which economists figure he begins to stop spending until his bills are paid. In fact, economists credit the consumer with having averted a business downturn by going on a spending splurge at the end of 1962. Autos are still the biggest beneficiary of that splurge, and sales in the first third of February ran 12% ahead of last...
...trend began to change in the middle 20 minutes. The Crimson didn't score but neither did the Eagles and play centered around the Eagle net. The varsity kept the puck past the B.C. blue line even with two men in the penalty...
...suspicions. Tax reduction and tax reform, he said, are "inseparable" in the Administration package. The total yearly cost of the tax cuts, when fully in effect in 1965, would by Dillon's estimate come to $13.6 billion. The proposed structural revisions would recover some $3.3 billion-for a net revenue loss of about $10 billion. That, said Dillon, is "the maximum revenue loss that can safely be accepted...
Recently published in England, Crowds and Power impressed all critics with its erudition, dazzled some into superlatives, and numbed others. Like Spengler, Toynbee and other sweeping theorists, Canetti casts a net over all of human history and tends to describe the entire sea from what he finds in his net...
...taught at Amherst and Dartmouth, was a familiar figure on the lecture circuit. He became a sort of traveling cracker-barrel sage who could produce an aphorism at the drop of a question. Asked his opinion of free verse, he said: "I would as soon play tennis without a net." Asked whether literature was an escape, he snapped: "The weak think they are escaping; the strong think they are pursuing." In his latter-day person as unofficial poet laureate, he journeyed to Russia and talked to Khrushchev, whom he pronounced "a grand old ruffian," and added with characteristically evenhanded egotism...