Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down to a Fig Leaf. Along with ponderation. Dontot has imbued Thomson-Houston with a dedication to long-range economic planning. Though French house wives have as yet shown scant enthusiasm for automatic washing machines, Dontot is convinced that they will come around in time, has doggedly plastered France with posters of a little man loading a Thomson-Houston washer with such enthusiasm that his sole remaining clothing consists of a straw hat and a fig leaf. Such investments in the future have paid off handsomely for Thomson-Houston. Currently, the company is swamped with or ders for short-wave...
When the Kennedy Administration closes its books for fiscal 1962 two months from now, the recession-ridden federal budget is certain to wind up somewhere on the order of $7 billion in the red. And there is scant relief in sight. Though the President a few months ago talked hopefully of showing a surplus for fiscal 1963 (see chart), most economists last week agreed that a budget deficit of from $2 billion to $5 billion is likely next year...
...feisty Detroit Lawyer Sol Dann, self-styled "gadfly" of the Chrysler Corp., consumed 70 solid minutes of Chrysler's annual stockholders' meeting with vividly phrased denunciations of the company's management. Last week, at Chrysler's 1962 meeting, Dann held himself down to a scant 43 minutes-which he filled with innumerable punning compliments ("Love begets love") to Chrysler's new management team headed by Chairman George Love, 61. Mused Love wryly: "I wonder what he would have done if my name was Smith." If Love's name were Smith, stockholders would probably...
...cynical citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...
...neat, easy-to-reach groups, has two bucket seats in front, and a bucket bench for two in the rear. With a fiber-glass body mounted on a steel chassis and an engine of 300 h.p. or more, the Avanti will go from standing to 60 m.p.h. in a scant 6.7 sec.-a performance rivaling that of the hottest European sports cars. It is expected to sell for about...