Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...millionaires have given up favorite haunts: no more nights at the Tanjong Rhu club over cool drinks and mah-jongg, no more rides home on a quiet road where moonlight filters through acacia and tulip trees. To protect themselves, some millionaires, like the movie-mogul Shaw brothers, reportedly pay regular tribute to the underworld. Others have bought barbed wire and snarling watchdogs. A few take the precaution of calling ahead to their destination whenever they go out, and if they fail to arrive on time, an alarm is sounded...
...recent years, increased productivity has been accompanied by regular wage hikes (see chart). Such unions as Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and James B. Carey's International Union of Electrical Workers now argue that earnings should rise at the same rate as productivity. But productivity jumps, insists management, not only reflect increased output per worker but increased capital investment and automation. Productivity also has an effect on prices and inflation. An increase in output per man-hour not only makes more goods available; it makes possible either lower prices or higher profits-or some of both...
...pics become available for his use 21 days after they close their Boston run. The extra-price stuff (like "Psycho" or "Expresso Bongo") does not hit the Square until after a subsequent regular-price Boston run. Then, after the usual 21-day blackout, it slithers into the U.T., much to the distress of those who have seen it in Boston for more cash...
...undergraduate of Harvard College I am dismayed by the costume adopted by some of my fellow students who are continuing their regular studies here at the summer session. I can understand that those visiting us from other areas, students from colleges of a different tradition, unacquainted with our way of life, see nothing wrong with shorts, sandals, and sports shirts. But Harvard men (much less Harvardmen) should know better. I call upon my brethren to return to the ways of old. Let us distinguish ourselves from the surrounding mass, with some outward sign of our inward grace. Let our sisters...
...ancient enemies, were constructing a new and united Europe. The communique was noncommittal, but spokesmen of both sides talked like men who could barely suppress their excitement. The French spokesman talked of decisions on "the new political construction of Europe," revealed that among the decisions was a plan for regular meetings of the heads of government of all six Common Market countries to formulate a common foreign policy, consult on other integrated programs...