Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lieutenant earns 100 times more, and a rear admiral 400 times that much. There is an additional discrimination that probably is due to the Soviet Union's problem with alcoholism. While officers may tipple in moderation onshore?and those of the Black Sea Fleet may even enjoy white wine at meals?Soviet sailors are forbidden at all times to drink on either land or sea. From all indications, the order is surprisingly well obeyed...
...Wine, New Bottle. In any case, the work will probably be as much debated in the '60s as The Affluent Society was in the '50s. "Anybody who talks about modern economics from now on," predicts former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, "is going to have to talk about...
...Galbraith is a very talented journalist and a very bad economist," declares Neil Jacoby, dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration. "I wouldn't have him on my faculty." University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater's former economic adviser, dismisses him as a phrasemaker?"old wine in a new bottle." Purrs Conservative William F. Buckley, a personal friend but philosophical foe: "Econo mists I know say everything he writes on economics is either platitudinous or wrong?or both." Sneers Jacoby: "Sure, his books sell well. So did Valley of the Dolls...
...quart, the migrants earn only $2 for their day's work. But the crew chief deducts $1.25 a day for transportation to the fields. He also overcharges them for their filthy accommodations, for their food (a concession controlled by his wife), and the 51?-a-pint payday wine that he sells for $1. As a result, at the end of the Long Island harvest, the migrant will have no choice but to bus along with the crew to the next stop: Florida. And then back to Long Island -perhaps for a lifetime of latter-day slavery...
...have wine and women, mirth and laughter...