Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The attack is long overdue. Economist Smith says industrial plants recently finished have cost up to 25% more than similar plants built a year ago-a stunning rate of inflation even for the construction industry. These increases eventually are reflected in the prices of goods sold by the new factories...
"I've found the man," Richard Nixon told his personal staff in 1967. "I've found the heavyweight!" The President was not, of course, speaking of sport but of politics, and his eye was not on the scales. Two years later, John Mitchell, the Attorney General, is still...
The facts are summed up in a new study prepared for the nation's top five orchestras-New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago-by the management-consultant firm of McKinsey & Co. Because rocketing costs -most notably, sharply increased salary scales-have not been met by a similar gain...
Weight on the Scales
"Woe to the cabinet which, with a policy of half measures and a fettered military system, comes upon an adversary who, like the rude element [of war], knows no other law than that of his intrinsic strength. Every deficiency in activity and effort is then a weight on the scales...