Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President William McKinley's wife used to have fits. If she suffered one during, say, a White House state dinner, McKinley would reach into his breast pocket for a large silk handkerchief, which with a matter-of-fact chivalry he would drape over her face. The President's forbidding dignity kept the conversation going, and when poor Ida, an epileptic, came around, he would remove the handkerchief and tenderly lead her back into the table talk...
...sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only fifteen minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students ahd to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad Ali, and Bruno Sammartino, our greatest eaters of artistic yogurt, the reigning Longevity-kings of our culture...
...soon as the inflation figure was announced, Israelis pulled out pocket calculators and began computing the value of their bank accounts, and merchants began adjusting prices. Banks, retirement funds and other financial institutions are automatically required to adjust the value of savings accounts, pensions and life insurance policies to offset fully the losses caused by the cost of living increases. A person's bank balance, for example, is immediately raised in line with the previous month's inflation. Every three months, employers must add 80% of the last quarter's inflation to their workers' wages. Informally...
...testing of large wind generators by aerospace firms such as Boeing and Lockheed. In 1981 the federal outlay is expected to jump to $80 million. The Government is also encouraging, with income-tax credits, small-scale residential windmills for individual homeowners. The credits pay 40% of out-of-pocket costs for the devices...
...worst for the back. Choose a chair that provides firm support, especially of the lower back. Keep feet slightly elevated. Get up occasionally, stretch and walk around to relieve the strain. A special tip to men: do not keep a bulging wallet in the back pocket. During long intervals of sitting, it can press on the sciatic nerve, sending shooting pains down...