Word: runge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affluent society, dishwashers feed themselves only through cleaning off the uneaten food of others. They are the highest predators of the biological chain, scavengers for people who don't hunt, gather or cook their meals. Depending on how you look at it, they occupy the highest or lowest rung in a society whose purpose is enjoyment. Their services indispensable for running restaurants, they are the vital link in the economy of hedonistic culture. Civilizations without the affluence and leisure to afford dining out certainly do not need dishwashers, but ours can't survive without them...
Flush with cash after having rung up one-third of all U.S. corporate profits last year, the nation's oil companies have been gobbling up companies on Wall Street like rich kids turned loose in a candy store. In March, Standard Oil of California made the largest takeover bid on record: $3.9 billion for 80% of the stock of Amax Inc., a diversified mining concern. A few weeks later, Standard Oil Co. of Ohio swallowed Kennecott Corp., the nation's largest copper producer, by offering stockholders a total of $1.9 billion for their shares...
Founder and captain of his high school math team--which won two California statewide championships--Smith is graduating with honors in chemistry and physics. He also produced this year's Lowell House opera, "The Elixir of Love," has played the piano since he was four, has rung the Lowell House bells for the past three years, has worked summers as a park ranger in the West and plans to go to divinity school when he returns from Sikkim...
...management development," which "makes size an advantage..." Representing an enterprise with 180,000 employees, whose $4.3-billion profits in 1979 represented more than the profits of DuPont, Sears, Proctor & Gamble, Xerox, and RCA combined, McCreery fights an uphill battle in convincing students they will be more than just a rung on the corporate ladder. But, he says, "Once you give people the idea that an industrial career can be tailor-made to their interests and capabilities you've basically done...
Meanwhile, Carter Administration officials broke some alarming news about the budget: in fiscal 1981, which ends Sept. 30, federal spending is now expected to balloon to $663 billion, and the deficit to total about $56 billion, second in size and impact only to the $66 billion rung up in 1976. Some advisers recommended delaying until July 1 the sweeping income tax cuts that Reagan has promised in order to keep the deficit from swelling even further; others insisted on asking Congress to make the cuts retroactive to Jan. 1, as first planned...