Word: stenotypist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadings were enough to muddle a stenotypist's ear, and in fact did just that. Dr. Walter Heller's remark at one point that "consumer satiety rears its ugly head" was transcribed as "consumer satanity." Dr. Heller was subsequently asked to define this interesting new economic concept. "The tendency of the consumer to be perverse-he sometimes thwarts us by refusing to react to certain things in the way we want him to," Heller quickly replied. Still, Heller maintains, there is basically no such thing as consumer satiation...