Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today the bidding jumps at the rate of $150 per second, often to six figures. Humphrey Finney has passed the company presidency on to his son John. The new $500,000 pavilion, used but one week a year, features more than a thousand cushioned chairs, an art exhibit, and closed...
>The Institut National Pédagogique purchased 3,000 scales for $17 apiece. Had it ordered one more scale, i.e., 3,001, it could have saved nearly a dollar on each.
One oddly embarrassing surprise to some of the professional people who approach the Government for a job is discovering how well they will be paid. Federal workers have had ten raises since 1962. Attorneys, chemists and engineers in Civil Service Grade 15 now make from $24,251 to $31,523?...
GARLAN MORSE: I don't think the nontariff barriers-import quotas, discriminatory taxes and the like-are understood by the public or by industry or even by Government. But these barriers are so important that just to renegotiate the tariff scales back and forth to bring some equilibrium does...
Just One More. Two days later, when I pulled Anglin' Sam out of bed at 5 a.m., he remarked that I had a funny glazed look. "Bass on the brain," he called it. The odd smell in the air-a combination of pork rind, outboard motor oil, anise and...