Word: ralph
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...ordinary reader, Wilson certainly has a point. The M.L.A. editions are crammed with niggling notes on whether Herman Melville used the spelling "bananas" or "banannas" and whether Howells wrote "wrapt" or "wrapped." In an earlier review of the M.L.A. edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University), Cultural Critic Lewis Mumford found the text so cut up by the "barbed wire" of notations and arcane diacritical symbols that it was virtually unreadable...
According to Council Vice Chairman Ralph Lazarus, president of Federated Department Stores, the economists believe that to tame inflation from its cur rent 4½% annual rate to a manageable 2%, a new Administration may have to "extend and intensify" its braking pressure. For how long? Possibly for one or two years, during which profits would suffer and unemployment would rise from its current 15-year low of 3½% to 4½% or even 5½%. That price, said Lazarus, might be "neither politically wise nor socially acceptable...
...policies, normally a matter of utmost secrecy. The company estimated that its labor costs average about $1,000 per car, or 32% of each sales dollar. It put tooling costs at $134 per car, for styling and other changes. The figures were aimed at refuting charges by Auto Critic Ralph Nader, who in July asserted that "the direct and indirect labor in a medium-priced car doesn't exceed $300." He claimed that styling costs account for "at least $700" of the price of a new auto...
...RALPH A. EDWARDS...
...Olympic long jump was supposed to be a two-man contest between the U.S.'s Ralph Boston and Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, coholders of the world record (27 ft. 4¾ in.). Beamon's unpolished jumping style made purists shudder and write off as a fluke his indoor world record of 27 ft. 2¾ in. last March. Sometimes he took off from his right foot, sometimes from his left. He often did not bother to count his strides on the approach. In the qualification trials, he fouled on his first two jumps and barely made...