Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinks it's the only way to fly," observed Richard Burton, 41, explaining why he had bought a "Hawker Siddeley de Havilland Twin Jet 125, one million dollars, seats ten, two beds, toilette, kitchen, bar, 600 miles per hour." Name Elizabeth. The munificent gift to Mrs. B. was a token of "the huge success of The Taming of the Shrew, of which we have a very large percentage," said Burton. And no worry about the family coffers being depleted. The Burtons are tucking another $2,000,000 under the mattress in Sardinia, where they are making Goforth, the hopeful...
...optimists can find selected areas of statistical com fort. Though 555,000 workers remain jobless-a worrisome 2.4% of a labor force accustomed to full employment -the ranks of newly unemployed are now growing only moderately. Because fewer workers are turning out about the same amount of goods, output per man has climbed. But amid rising prices and escalating taxes, few Britons quarrel with Harold Wilson's forecast: 'This is going to be a difficult winter...
...charging service industries $3.50 a week per male employee, the controversial S.E.T. was supposed to help channel more labor into tax-subsidized manufacturing jobs. Instead, service industries have added the tax to their prices and kept their help-while manufacturing employment has dwindled. All by itself, the S.E.T. has so far boosted the cost of living by 0.5%, according to Treasury estimates. Though pledged with the advent of North Sea natural gas to push Britain toward a cheap-energy policy, the government this month raised the price of nationalized electricity...
Stone and Karp drove hard to increase Monogram's lead in the field of recirculating toilets, which return the chemically treated water to the bowl after the waste is filtered away. Monogram now supplies toilets for 15% to 80% of U.S. airliners (at $1,500 to $3,000 per unit), and most corporate jets...
...they give up no more than four yards a play the defenders are dong their job. Statistics show that the best teams rarely can run more than 14 plays in succession without a mistake, and poorer teams less. So Harvard is willing to give up to three first downs per drive and wait for the error--a fumble, interception, big loss--which will stall the opposition short of the end zone...