Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lampooned Wall Street as the rotten heart of decadent capitalism. Last week, touring Manhattan as the guest of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Goriaev was candidly eager to see what the place is really like. Heading toward the Street in a taxicab, he thought he could sense the pace of city life accelerating. "Time is money," he said. "The closer you get to Wall Street, the more the tempo picks...
...Indianapolis 500-mile auto race last week scrambled out to begin the "Big Spin in the Brickyard" like Memorial Day road hogs trying to beat their neighbors to the beach. Even the pre-race parade, which called for the competitors to ride in neat ranks three abreast behind a pace car, immediately degenerated into a fight for the pole. It took three turns around the 2½mile track before the fast-moving field straightened out enough to satisfy the official starter. Then the green flag fell and 33 big feet pushed 33 throttles to the floorboards. The restrained snarl...
...immediate future, the big increase in white-collar workers saddles industry with high fixed costs that reduce corporate flexibility. The payoff, says Wernick, will come in the future: "Industry hired its salaried professionals to keep pace with technology, to cut future cost and increase productivity. For the long term, such workers give industry a solid investment base to reduce future costs as it produces future products. It will be able to pick up very rapidly without increasing costs much...
...such ills as high blood pressure and heart disease that often accompany the businessman's strenuous pace, Dr. James N. Lynch, secretary of the Chicago Dental Society, last week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth...
...declined to say whether the increase will keep pace across the board with tuition rises, stating that the exact average increment "will not be known until the end of the academic year when all the figures...