Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Sunday-supplement articles report that a private detective is probably an ex-cop who guards industrial secrets, some romance still clings to him. Nicholas Pileggi, a New York-based investigative reporter, has written a book about one authentic private eye. It is a painstaking job, which makes it pleasant to report that while this trim detective has little chance to crack wise with classy dames, there are a few traces of the exotic in his work...
Mary Beim in the title role has a saccharine content well above 800 Tabs a day. With a pleasant voice, she competently presents herself as the virtuous and innocent heroine in danger of losing the mortgage to the home she bought with the earnings from her cookie sales. When Big Jim finally proposes to her, Beim gives the audience a saccharine high as she exclaims "I am a woman fulfilled...
Ross Stagner Pleasant Ridge, Mich...
Taxpayers will have many more -though generally more pleasant-changes to cope with next year under the new law. Divorced people filing returns now can deduct alimony payments only if they itemize deductions; next year they will be able to deduct alimony from gross income and then take the standard deduction...
...change, economists got a pleasant surprise last week. They had been bracing themselves for a February unemployment rate of 8% or higher, since the Government collected its jobless figures in mid-month, when layoffs forced by cold weather and energy shortages were at their peak. Instead, the jobless rate was 7.5%, only slightly higher than 7.3% in January-a powerful indication that the economic recovery retained its underlying strength through the bitter winter. About 225,000 workers were laid off in February because of the cold, and another 220,000 were forced onto short weeks. Still, the number of people...