Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diluted million. Says James A. Easter, 32, of Chicago, who hit his jackpot in November 1974: "I've been meeting girls like crazy. I always thought women took time and money. Lately I've had both." Some winners quit their jobs, partly because their newly inflated tax bracket makes working literally less worth their while. Travel becomes affordable and a way to kill time. Gary and Janet Beaton of Boxford, Mass., visited warmer climes, such as Acapulco and Bermuda, then spent the summer cruising in their new boat...
...Performers Series. Hubbard has not progressed as much as hoped for from the time he broke in as an 18-year old wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner is still my favorite pianist. He has not surrendered to the electric piano (in fact, he even tried his hand on the harpsichord in one album...
...task force offers only sketchy examples of the type of courses that would fit into these requirements. The mathematical reasoning bracket, for example, would include subjects such as statistical inference, computer science, or problems in public policy analysis...
Courses in western culture could be similar to Soc Sci 2, "Western Thought and Institutions," Wilson said. Courses such as Soc Sci 11, "East Asian Civilization," would fit into the non-western bracket...
Berman lampoons the growth of big, expensive hospitals-"Blue Cross Hiltons"-where you go "if you are deathly ill and want your body monitored by everything but a kind soul and a gentle hand." He is merciless about medical greed: "Any M.D. who has to worry about his tax bracket after only six months in practice is a folk hero to his peers." Moreover, he insists, even socialized medicine could not bring back the house call, end unnecessary tonsillectomies or make $5,000 operations a thing of the past. For his resourceful fellow physicians would "never allow the manner...