Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of Jackson's political career, three men have helped shape his political views and still act as a frequently consulted, yet sometimes critical, home-town kitchen cabinet. They...
...Jersey may be about to shape up, however, thanks to pressure of two kinds. One is the recession, which has sent the unemployment rate up to 10.3%, and revenues plunging by $135 million. The other is the fact that the state is under a court order to come up with a new method for financing public education. In 1973, the State Supreme Court declared that heavy reliance on local property taxes created wide disparities in the quality of education. But the state senate blocked a $300 million plan submitted by Governor Brendan Byrne to rectify the imbalance because it depended...
...thus begin restoring jobs. Asserts Tax Specialist Joseph Pechman: "If Congress were to adopt the Ford program lock, stock and barrel, the net stimulus today would be zero." Adds Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution: "The entire reason for that deficit is that the economy is in terrible shape, and is knocking hell out of revenues and increasing federal expenditures for unemployment and other things." Banker Beryl Sprinkel, one of the few Board members to disagree, argues that the budget figures are "realistic if we have high among our priorities keeping this inflation under significant control...
...bear to listen to myself," said Mabel Mercer on her 75th birthday. But every smart pop singer in the past 50 years has listened and learned from Mercer how to shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent...
Stockwell says that part of the problem with coordination between business and government is that the council doesn't give what he calls "too many pounds of respect for those who shape the town's economy and commerce," a point to which insurance executive Jack Dyer readily agrees. "Politicians here tell you that you ought to be more involved," says Dyer, "and then when you get more involved they tell you not to interfere--I'm not convinced what goes on [in City Council] Monday night is the answer...