Word: page
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait. That isn't General Custer on page 476 any more, it's a wronged native American called Sitting Bull...
Anyone opening a new savings account has long had his pick of desk lamps, hair dryers or blenders, but the East New York Savings Bank is showing up the purveyors of discount detritus for the pikers they are. Full-page newspaper ads offered depositors something more than "a tacky little toaster" in return for $160,000 left on deposit for eight years -an $84,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. When the Desert Empire Bank of Cathedral City, Calif., tried the same gimmick in 1977 in return for a $ 1 million six-year deposit, it failed to find even...
...page audit, which was prepared by the European Court of Auditors and promptly leaked to the West German weekly Stern, disclosed that the commissioners, who administer the E.C., had run up expenses that cost taxpayers from the nine Common Market nations a total of $1.4 million last year. In addition the commissioners were paid $2.1 million in salaries and allowances. The auditors turned up such items as Jenkins' $3,842 bill for liquor consumed in his Brussels office, Danish Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach's $126,993 transportation tab, and West German Commissioner Wilhelm Haferkamp...
...cabbies of American fiction, Philip Roth has a great glove but can't hit the long ball. The fans will always yearn for the big shot that resounds with bulging affirmations and conventional wisdom. Roth even parodied this expectation in The Great American Novel (1973), a 400-page indulgence of his gifts for lampoon and mimicry...
Three years ago, the Journal began selling space to individuals and interest groups that want to put their money ($1,500 a page) where their mouths are. Former HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. held forth for seven pages (paid for by Xerox Corp.) on the economics of aging, and Jimmy Carter was given two pages (on the house) to explain how the U.S. health-care system "rewards spending and penalizes efficiency...