Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance, this year's draw bunched all these teams together and matched teams from the East, South and Midwest in the other bracket. If Harvard had won Tuesday it would have had to face one of the Western teams--probably a hard-hitting Brigham Young squad that narrowly lost to U.S.C...
...about six weeks, you begin to get a puzzlement in the group. The case-aide brings the best of intentions. Harvard students -- people in that age bracket, generally--bring a sense of omnipotence to their work: it is as a result of their good intentions that the patient will get well. It is as a result of somebody paying a little attention to him. Sometimes this actually works...
...might deny him the chance to win the job at all. As a multimillionaire by inheritance as well as by his own labors-his 42,507 shares of General Motors stock alone are worth $3,257,000-Knudsen regarded his failure to move to a higher salary bracket with comparative indifference. But he looked on a dead-end career with dread...
...decisive determinant for many prospective sponsors. For an advertiser of color-television sets or rent-a-cars, for example, the pivotally important fact is that Sullivan pulls only 16.3% of the TV families earning more than $10.000 a year, while NBC's Dean Martin attracts 23.4% in that bracket. Not surprisingly, then, Zenith and Hertz buy time on Martin while, in the main, mass-consumption products such as Nabisco crackers, Wesson oil and Hunt's tomato paste are pushed on Sullivan...
...income falls below a certain level. Under one proposal, a family paying no income tax (for example, a family of four with income of less than $3,000) would receive payments equal to the exemptions and deductions it would be credited with if it were in a tax-paying bracket. As Miller sees it, a householder with no income whatsoever "would receive a basic allowance related to the size and composition of the family unit...