Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salary of $22,900. By 1987 it will be $3,046 on a salary of $42,600. Workers earning $10,000 this year paid $585 in Social Security taxes; by 1987, they will pay $715. People who earned $20,000 this year paid $965 to Social Security, but will shell...
...purchasing countries and add to world inflationary pressures. The uncertainty created by the drop could also hurt world trade and investment. Already, U.S. firms buying or selling abroad must haggle about what currency is to be used for payment, and some companies building plants in Europe have had to shell out far more dollars than they ever expected to get the foreign currency to pay for the construction. In international finance, as in other matters, too much is too much...
...critical purposes, let's assume that the play, at Broadway's Imperial Theater, is not totally autobiographical. When we meet the hero, a writer named George Schneider (Judd Hirsch), he is a heartbroken shell of a man who sleepwalks around his living room poring over letters of condolence. The leftovers in his refrigerator are reinventing penicillin. His brother Leo (Cliff Gorman), a kind of compassionate Sammy Glick, feels that the cure for George's depression is to fix him up with a date-in Leo's mind a euphemism for an easy...
...those most in need of improved health care are virtually powerless to initiate change in the current system. They are powerless against an awesome wall of opposition. First, there is the American Medical Association (AMA) which, valuing its autonomy like a tortoise values its shell, is inclined to exert negative pressure on any proposal that would result in the decline of physicians' incomes. Needless to say, the idea of eliminating "fee for service" payment is clobbered with a hammer every time it raises its tiny head. Then there are the insurance lobbies and health industry lobbies which are opposed...
...stairs. The room, once lit, turns out to be extremely large, about 35 feet long, and painted a strange shade of pinkish orange. There are two enormous desk-size color TV sets as well as a couple of legitimate desks, a spherical environmental chair with an unexploded artillery shell inside, a long couch covered with flower prints and wall shelves filled with gun manuals and almanacs. However, there is no bed. There is a set of double doors at the far end, though, and behind this I finally find the bedroom and my brother. The dogs are still carrying...