Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line when 34 new homes, going for $58,000 to $67,000, went on sale. Three weeks ago, 650 people turned up at the sales office of the Leisure World development in Laguna Hills, Calif., to participate in a lottery. Those whose names were drawn from a barrel had the privilege of paying up to $128,000 for one of the development's 132 new houses. In Huntington Harbor, a marina complex south of Los Angeles, Christiana Co. recently offered 52 houses, ranging in price from $104,000 to $195,000. In all, 111 people showed...
Petersen says that several times he found himself looking down a gun barrel, but was diplomatic enough to escape unharmed. Even though some Central Americans may not have welcomed him, or Americans in general, they loved one in particular: Both Petersen and Davis constantly received requests for pictures of John F. Kennedy...
...does he see his colleagues in the department restraining their criticism of donors or restricting their research into sensitive areas. "Sure, like every profession there are a few rotten apples in the barrel...that would sell their soul" for support, he says, "but there are damn few."CrimsonSandy O. SteingardHOWARD H. HIATT, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, said earlier this month he will ask the school's administrative board to consider asking faculty to list their outside work. This grows out of a recent report criticizing links between the school's Department of Nutrition and the food...
...called Little Red Book remains the fundamental vade mecum of every citizen of the Chinese People's Republic. It is also an inspiration to an assortment of would-be revolutionaries, guerrillas and new leftists around the world. Among the most famous quotations: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," and "Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs...
...calculating a company's profit or loss. As a hypothetical case, depending on which of two methods of figuring the value of goods held in inventory was followed, an oil company in 1974 might have claimed a profit of $6 or a loss of $1 on each barrel of petroleum sold from stockpiles. Companies and their auditors have been known to switch from one method to another, which would enable a company to report the greatest immediate profit. In an effort to provide more uniformity, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (F.A.S.B.), a body set up by the industry itself...