Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tinted, bone-perfect reproduction of Rogers, nor does he even speak with Rogers' casual, careless Oklahoma drawl. What he tries for, and succeeds in evoking, is a psychic affinity with the wit of the Western corral, a man whose comic spirit always had a visible edge but no sting of malice, a man who could toss off a one-liner like, "I could have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to talk to a Congressman...
...task that top managements increasingly face as the business downturn and profit squeeze make superfluous executives an insupportable luxury. In July, unemployment among professional and managerial employees rose to 394,000-up 74% from a year earlier. Now, though, a method has been developed to take some of the sting and embarrassment out of executive firing. Instead of simply bouncing a subordinate, the boss can send him to a firm that specializes in helping unwanted executives to find new jobs. The practitioners have even coined a euphemistic description for the process: "outplacing" executives who have been "dehired...
...they are. President Nixon issued a proclamation recognizing the suffrage anniversary, and the mayors of New York, Pittsburgh and Syracuse issued statements designating Women's Rights Day. Feminist leaders vowed that opponents of the equal rights amendment would feel the election-year sting of the women's vote...
...pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...
...Foreign commercial banks can lend dollars back to the U.S. Last year U.S. banks borrowed a startling $9 billion of Eurodollars. That gave the banks more money to lend in America, and eased the sting of the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy. But the U.S.'s borrowing drove Eurodollar interest rates as high as 12%, and the rise helped to pull up all other European interest rates. > Foreign central banks can buy up unwanted dollars and hold them in official reserves. In West Germany, the Bundesbank last week bought $500 million that flooded in-mostly from speculators...