Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Maynard Keynes pronounced, in copybook style: "The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift but Profit." He might also have pointed out that profits revolve in a self-regenerating cycle, providing the impetus for new and expanded ventures, which in turn crank out more profits. When earnings are high, employers can afford to be generous with pay raises. Profits are also the major force that sends the stock market up-or, in their absence, down. And the market's performance has much to do with the hopes and disappointments of the 26 million Americans who own stock...
...high-yield wheat strains in Asia, improved fertilizer and increased irrigation-have coincided with successive years of beneficent weather to produce a bumper crop of wheat. India and Pakistan, both traditional grain customers, have increased wheat production by 40% since 1966 and are now near self-sufficiency. The total stock in wheat-producing nations is 51 million metric tons, or almost the same amount of wheat that has been exported annually in world trade...
...Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute one eye winks, his shoulders shrug, his mouth gives a little downward grimace, and out comes the self-mocking voice of a Jewish comedian: "Oy, this hurts...
Instructions to be distributed with the "self-credit" cards say: "Carry the card in your wallet at all times . . . . At the very beginning of a meeting for settling any controversy, place your card on the table with those of others . . . . The mere fact that yours is on the table brings into play everyone's 'inner voice...
...group of individuals concerned with "bringing goodness back into the world" will distribute 18,000 "self-credit" cards on campus today...