Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the benefits flow to the already rich classes. One result is an attitude of largesse oblige-if you have money, spend it. Instead of heading for Caspian Sea resorts, affluent Iranians now fly to Europe for a vacation-or a dental checkup, a visit to a London tailor or a Paris mistress. Some government ministers have tripled their departments' budgets, then put the money into expensive furniture and other signs of ostentation. The governor of Baluchistan province almost lost his job for ending his fiscal year with a $2.5 million surplus. Explains a Tehran editor: "It is considered...
...YORK'S IMMIGRATION officials gave my maternal great grandfather his name. "What kind of work will you do?" I can imagine an Ellis Island inspector asking him. "I can sew," my great grandfather probably answered in Yiddish. "A tailor. Alright, Morris. Stitch is your new American name." Henceforth the man would be known by his product. The confusions and contradictions of the arrival, the harrowing journey from the homeland, and the family still trapped on the Russian shtetl, anxiously waiting for word to come join him, were glibly ignored by this new alien world...
...Jewish community in the midst of American society. But the sheer facts of life on the East Side overwhelmed them. The interminable hours in the sweatshops, families crowded six to a room in the tenements, the growth of crime and near epidemics of dysentery, typhoid and tuberculosis, the "tailor's disease," seemed to reflect the chaos of their lives. Howe quotes the Yiddish writer Leon Kobrin...
...outsiders, Hubbard turned up briefly in Clearwater last month, portly, in apparent good health and decked out in a khaki jumpsuit and matching tam-o'-shanter. Flamboyant and authoritative, Hubbard barked out orders to a crew of young people, opened a five-figure checking account and paid a tailor $2,800 for some new clothes...
...bill's 50 pages. The bill would put the nation much farther into the business of economic planning than it has ever gone: the President would be required every year to present a program to Congress that would set numerical goals for jobs, production and purchasing power, and tailor federal programs to achieve that end. Some parts of the bill also are internally inconsistent. One section would require the Government to spend as much as necessary-estimates range from a low of $12 billion all the way to $25 billion-to achieve a 3% unemployment rate. Another provision would...