Word: slash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title character, Hyman Kaplan (Tom Bosley), is likable even though he is an outrageous showoff. To him and to the other immigrants attending a night-school class in Americanization, the English language is a terrifying octopus at which they slash, tentacle by tentacle, in a melee of dialect comedy and amusing linguistic boners. Kaplan is in a one-man class by himself. If the teacher, an earnest young Ivy League graduate named Mr. Parkhill (Gary Krawford) rebukes him, Kaplan rebukes right back. Kaplan answers twice as many questions as are ever asked, and holds the attention of his fellow class...
...last week's order, Lockheed had outflanked rival McDonnell Douglas, whose DC-10 is a similar air bus. McDonnell two months ago sold 25 DC-10s to American Airlines at $16 million apiece; American also has an option to buy 25 more. Lockheed's response was to slash L-1011 prices from $17 million to $15 million each, and coolly advise prospective customers to buy fast-before the price went back...
...basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency's budget even more savagely than usual next month when Gaud presents the Administration's request for $3 billion in the coming fiscal year...
Symptoms of Deterioration. The grumbling is even greater at California's 18 state colleges, which serve 190,000 students, compared with 95,000 at the university. Reagan asked for a $24 million slash in the colleges' proposed $249 million budget. Faced with an $18.5 million request for funds to lower professors' class loads and introduce various innovations, the Governor reduced the sum to a mere $459,000. Even State College Chancellor Glenn Dumke, a friend and politicalally of Reagan's, sees "symptoms of deterioration" in a rising faculty turnover (now at 10% a year...
...have new orders for durable goods. More difficult to gauge is industry's inventory accumulation, which rose at the end of December to a seasonally adjusted $82.3 billion, up $500 million over the month before. Some economists feel that this bodes trouble, since manufacturers may later have to slash output in order to reduce their inventories. The fact is that much of the build-up is merely the result of steel stockpiling in anticipation of a possible strike in that industry this summer...