Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking tells it, Soviet patrol boats landed Soviet troops on the island. While Soviet aircraft circled menacingly overhead, the Russians attacked Chinese inhabitants and soldiers who were at work in the fields. The Soviets, says Peking, also set fire to one dwelling...
...bank can afford to be too choosy, since the 3% discount barely covers overhead, and monthly carrying charges are the cream of the business. Success for the banks depends on wide circulation of the cards among people who will use them to finance big-ticket purchases. Customers are assessed no fee if they pay their bills to the bank within 30 days; thereafter, the interest mounts at 1½ % a month. Thus the bankers expect to get most of their profits from people who do not pay punctually...
...School. In one sense, the profit is only a paper one, since the charge which the School contributes to, for example, Widener Library, is only an approximation of what the summer use of the library's recourses costs. On the other hand, many of Harvard's overhead expenses--libraries, administration, custodial care, etc.--would go on in the summer even if there were no Summer School. Though Harvard might, in a given year, lose money on the school, it would certainly lose more if there were no Summer School...
...broad lawn, while a Berlioz march thundered from loudspeakers. Some women wore mink stoles; others were in frantically color-splashed pants suits. Folded Yiddish newspapers protruded from the pockets of some of the men. While President Leonard Lief conferred the degrees, jet planes from Kennedy Airport soared overhead; the roar of traffic and elevated trains, punctuated occasionally by the shriek of sirens, filtered through the spring-fresh foliage of trees surrounding the campus. There was only passing allusion to dissent in the address by Larry C. Dillard, senior-class president and a Negro. Dillard cited widespread poverty, "the horror...
...ashore, sunstruck and dehydrated. On their hospital cots, the "orphans" are indeed hailed as heroes and plied with gifts. The trouble is, they would trade all the bikes and toys, all the chances for plush adoption, for life with Popi. As officials tumble to the truth and scandal hovers overhead, a HEW functionary asks, "How can we deprive the world of a happy ending to this fairy tale?" To the film's credit, it chooses deprivation...