Word: subtractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these unsettling signs, many economists believe that their more nervous colleagues are overreacting. Harvard Professor Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, estimates that the basic inflation rate remains at about 5½%, and "you add or subtract, subject to how hard you stimulate the economy and how lucky you are about weather and fluctuations in world oil prices." Eckstein forecasts a 6.4% rise in the Consumer Price Index this year-worse than the 5.8% of 1976 but a long way from double digits. Adds John Bunting, chairman of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Bank...
...each worker, or to 12% of the money they spend on new plant and equipment. Many Congressmen want to scrap both alternatives in favor of a plan that would tie tax cuts directly to the number of workers added to payrolls. Ullman's idea: let an employer subtract from-his income tax 25% of the wages-up to $4,200 a year-paid to a worker newly hired or recalled from layoff...
...LEARNED in elementary school about common denominators--before you subtract apples from oranges you must turn everything into bananas. It seemed last week, momentarily, that that's what Michael W. Brown-Beasley had forgotten to do: here was an ex-Fiscal Services employee arguing a case of reverse racial discrimination by comparing Harvard's handling of his dismissal for insubordination (apples) to its treatment of a one-time Buildings and Grounds superintendent arrested for threatening a Radcliffe student he allegedly had pimped for (oranges...
Masquerade. Subtract Divine Disobedience, substitute an architect for that painter husband and Radcliffe for Barnard, and the above details, cheekbones included, pretty well describe Stephanie, the heroine of Mrs. Gray's first novel. This may be why Lovers and Tyrants flourishes only when it is masquerading as a memoir. The author has no trouble persuading the reader that there was once a small girl in Paris named Stephanie. She loved her father and was shattered by his death early in the war. She longed to be a boy and a naval hero, but was stifled by the clinging care...
...bares the neck. "Japanese women are always covered up by the kimono, so that only the neck shows," he explains. "The Japanese think the neck is very sexy." Adds Stylist Eric Lintermans, owner of Linter-mans in Beverly Hills: "It lifts the face. The cut by the cheekbones can subtract years from a woman's face." Also, he notes, it can be styled in minutes with a blow dryer: "I think women are tired of having to fuss with their hair-of brushing and spraying and curling." To Fashion Designer Rudi Gernreich, the wedge is simply part...