Word: summed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sum, the economy in midspring is much more robust than the experts had anticipated it would be, but the old devil of inflation is tougher than ever. The economy may well be approaching a stage where new inflationary bottlenecks will appear. Shortages of skilled labor are cropping up; the amount of overtime is running close to that of 1973, when plants were operating at close to full effective capacity. Considering that, most members of the board favored a reduction in Carter's proposed $25 billion tax cut. Noted Okun: "What looked to me like a reasonable fiscal policy...
...form of the short story. Airships proves Hannah an exception. Though a few of the 20 pieces included here fall flat, most are artfully rounded-off vignettes jumping with humor and menace. And the stories bounce off and echo one another, giving the book an impact greater than the sum of its parts...
...taxes that have been growing explosively in recent years (see chart). The nibbles from those taxes come a little at a time every day or every payday and thus seem less aggravating. Only the property tax looms up once a year (or sometimes once a quarter) as a lump-sum payment of hundreds or thousands of dollars. As such, it is an easy target for people who often feel that the very homes they live in are being threatened...
...would have paused with, perhaps found whatever it was he thought he was looking for," writes Schickel of Koerner's women friends. That second clause needs to be drained, refloated and fitted out with new prepositions. But the early lapses are not repeated, and the novel in sum is intelligent, sentimental writing for the middle-aged and cynical, who need it more than most...
...greatest mad scientist director, Stanley Kubrick, the chance to experiment with Nabokov's novel--and the result remains titillating. Some will argue that Sue Lyons was too old to play Nabokov's beguiling nymphet. But you have to know that those sunglasses and red lipstick and tight pants sum up the early 60s' teen angel. Others will tell you that James Mason's manners are too good to convey the sick depths of Humboldt Humboldt's jealousy; but it's precisely this polish that lends Humboldt that extra edge of perversity. And then there is Peter Sellars, who is more...