Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tables-some of us even have jobs. The biggest mistake the Government could make would be to discontinue the stamps and disburse cash. Haven't we learned by this time that the majority of these people don't have the background or the desire to spend their money for necessities first and luxuries second...
Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym. Bent on prolonging their useful lives, they pedal, bounce, pull and jog, sweating and puffing off excess fat. More and more companies encourage their employees to lose weight, but none have been quite so imaginative as Lowe's Inc. of Cassopolis, Mich. Lowe's is best known as the manufacturer of Kitty Litter, a granulated clay that is used to line cat boxes. The firm, which had sales...
These political-legal type cases constitute right now about half of Flym's practice. He recently left a large law firm to start his own--Flym and Zakhind--so that he could spend more of his time on this type of case. The firm's specialty is litigation. Flym is interested in draft cases; his partner handles many pertaining to narcotics laws. Fully 40 per cent of their clients are poor people from Boston's ghettos. "People in the ghetto always seem to be in trouble with the law," Flym says, "and they often have trouble finding someone to defend...
...time for the Nabokovs to leave. They do -to a different place every year, chosen for the local lepidoptera. This year it will be Lugano. Nabokov seemingly never tires of saying he may return to the U.S. "Especially in spring," he says, "I dream of going to spend my purple-plumed sunset in California, among the larkspurs and oaks and in the serene silence of her university libraries...
Lane is prepared to lend $15 million in the poor neighborhoods and spend $1,000,000 a year in cleanup campaigns. He also intends to expand his program far beyond that by seeking such large depositors as the Ford Foundation and converting their money into high-risk loans. "Lowincome people need money," says Lane, "and the banks have got to give it to them...