Word: prices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed the girl-then crept quietly away from the scene without saying anything to anyone, leaving car and corpse to be discovered the next day without his assistance. The laws covering a situation like this are stringent-nay, merciless. Such a private citizen would pay a very stiff price indeed for his irresponsible behavior. Yet it seems that Edward Kennedy intends to pay no price...
...exploiting the time allocated to social intercourse. One devotes oneself to the simultaneous consumption of food and people. To be the only guests to dinner is normally considered less flattering than to be invited with many others, perhaps because it suggests that your time is at such a low price that you are content to meet a couple of people at a time...
SELF-PARODY is the price of style...
...create a climate of uncertainty among businessmen, consumers and investors. The rationale is that considerable uncertainty about the future course of the economy is necessary to erase the nation's deep-seated inflationary psychology. As long as people persist in believing that economic growth is perpetual and price rises are inevitable, they will continue to buy and borrow in order to beat still further increases. Once people begin to doubt that "good times" will last forever, the theory goes, then everyone will become more cautious in his buying decisions, demand will slow down-and prices will taper off. This...
Thurmond Shaddix, a bank clerk in Atlanta, bought the stock of a machinery-parts manufacturer, Breeze Corporations, at 20. When the shares hit 37 in May, he asked his broker if he should sell. The broker advised holding for larger gains. The price has since dropped to about 14, giving Shaddix a 30% loss on an investment that once showed an 85% profit. "I'm really burned about that one," says Shaddix, who also has a small loss in some blue chips...