Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been better off. Its economy, booming along at an annual growth rate of 13.6%, provides full employment. Last year Japan overtook Britain to become the world's fourth largest industrial power, after the U.S., Russia and West Germany. In the past five years, Japanese consumers have upgraded their status symbols from a Sony TV set to a new Toyota auto, and many are saving their wages so that they can escape the stacks of overcrowded public apartments in large cities to a home of their own. A government survey taken in January showed that 63% of those over...
...Look how beautiful she is.'" Other Negro girls are more leary. Huffs a Manhattan Negro career girl: "The 'black is beautiful' idea has affected very few Negro males. They still think that kinky hair and Negro lips are unattractive. A white woman is still a status symbol. It is for my brother. He married...
Progressive leaders met with Premier Levi Eshkol, petitioned the government to grant Reform Judaism wider legal status in Israel, demanding that 1) Reform rabbis be permitted to officiate at weddings and funerals, 2) conversions to Judaism carried out by Reform rabbis be legally recognized, and 3) the government provide financial aid to Reform groups, as it does to Orthodox congregations...
Horizontal mergers (between competitors) and vertical mergers (between users and suppliers) have long been severely limited by well-established antitrust law. The status of conglomerate mergers, between companies not in direct competition, remains uncertain. Only last May, Justice issued a 27-page merger guideline suggesting that conglomerates would be opposed if, for instance, the merger would prevent two noncompeting partners from entering each other's fields on their own. Thus, this month a federal District Court upheld a key Justice challenge to a merger of Wilson Sporting Goods, a subsidiary of LTV, with a small maker of gymnastic equipment...
Westbrook: "You're fired." Stuff like that. Lehner: And when the girl goes out of the room, he takes a leather portfolio, looks around, opens it up and starts doodling some very silly, funny little things. And the announcer says: "Introducing a new executive status symbol-Flair. To the casual observer, Flair is a dignified, serious, executive pen. But when you're alone, Flair reveals its true identity as the executive play pen. The greatest doodler in the world. This Christmas give him the executive play pen, Flair...