Word: purred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapid self-enrichers seem to be motivated by greed. It seems more likely that they recognize "money, pur et simple," in Bagehot's phrase, as the shortest, speediest route to public recognition, self-esteem and power-or, simply, security in a threatening world...
...Young & Co., Lockheed's auditors, fell into the hands of a Senate subcommittee investigating multinational corporations, and the subcommittee made them public. They revealed not only the Kodama connection but also a pervasive pattern of corporate influence buying: payments to Italian politicians, "gifts" to Turkish officials, and the pur chase of industrial secrets...
Rather delicately, he explained that al though the Big Mac bonds were a "sound security"-of which he had already bought $25 million-any further pur chases might "unbalance" the funds' portfolios. Other experts suggested that the fiscally conservative comptroller might well fear that buying more Big Mac bonds could eventually leave him open to accusations of irresponsibility...
Junk thought. No graduate of the Wharton School of Business ever pur sued his ambitions at IBM with as much single-mindedness. Mark had all the inverted status symbols: a trusty old Volkswagen, a loyal mongrel dog, a commune in a good neighborhood and a larder stuffed with choice grass and macrobiotic snacks. But there is a serpent in every Eden; Mark's was mental illness...
...conservation policy with teeth that would decrease imports and slow down depletion of domestic supplies. Alongside it should come a program - funded in part by energy taxes aimed at inducing conservation - to exploit domestic potential to the fullest. To guard against a future embargo, the Government could pur chase a stock pile of oil, with producers submitting sealed bids; that just might stimulate some producing nations to undercut OPEC's prices. The U.S. nonpolicy on energy and congressional inaction are both dangerous and scandalous...