Word: perks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economics or efficacy of that stance aside, it's refreshing every once in a while to hear that someone is cracking down on all that expense-padding, paper-shuffling, perk-taking corruption. That's why it was satisfying to hear of the collaring and conviction of two of the most amoral reprobates ever to take the sacred oaths of government service. Norman Edward Wilson, 59, and William Earl Ferguson, 44, who were found guilty of tampering with the U.S. mail in their jobs in the section of the U.S. Post Office which rewraps damaged packages. Specifically, Wilson and Ferguson opened...
Even if Christmas sales do perk up during the next two weeks, most economists expect fourth-quarter retail sales-including automobiles, appliances and general merchandise-to be only slightly ahead of last year's fourth quarter, after adjustment for inflation. November's sales, reported last week, rose by an inflation-adjusted 2% above last year, thanks largely to the recent pickup in auto sales sparked by carmakers' cut-rate financing. The sluggishness in spending puzzles some economists, who see a number of reasons why people should be buying...
...built in part from spare NASA assemblies, including the motor from a solid-fuel Minuteman missile. The firm's owners now plan to go into commercial service in 1984, with monthly launches starting two years later. With space technology rapidly advancing and the competition for launches beginning to perk up, prices may start dropping out of orbit long before the satellites do. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Stephen Koepp/New York
...marvelous background in economics." Shultz, a Ph.D. economist, is the first of that breed to preside over America's diplomacy. Economics, Percy believes, lies at the heart of modern statecraft. "And Shultz is not a turf fighter," concluded Percy, referring to Haig's terminal impulse to battle over every perk...
...except her father. Interned by Polish military authorities-at a villa near Warsaw-since Dec. 13, Walesa has missed the early weeks of life of his seventh child. News of Maria Victoria's scheduled christening this past weekend near Gdansk was followed closely by millions of Poles. To perk up her own spirits-and maybe even Baby Maria Victoria's-Walesa's wife Danuta held her daughter for a pre-christening photograph in front of a portrait of her famous father...