Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news for you. You're not going to impress anyone by hanging around the condiment table at the Union or taking your lecture notes in shorthand...
...Ranked in order of 1977 revenues. Shell is shorthand for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, owned by two private companies, The Netherlands' Royal Dutch Petroleum (60%) and Britain's "Shell" Transport & Trading...
...highest point since tabulations began in 1951. Michigan mines and power plants cannot find enough ironworkers, pipe fitters, welders or millwrights. Allstate Insurance Co. has such difficulty hiring office help that it sends recruiters to Chicago-area high schools in search of students who are learning typing and shorthand. Says Employment Manager Charles Bashaar: "We even have the Welcome Wagon lady give a pitch for working at Allstate when she hands out gifts to newcomers in her area...
There are no short, stubby brunettes in California?it is an EPA regulation?so Tiegs' kind of beauty is called, in the shorthand of the business, the California look. It is not simply a matter of height and blondeness and blue eyes. Her cheekbones are set wide under a tanned breadth of untroubled forehead, and the result, by some trick of geometry, is a face whose expressions are astonishingly warm and open. Her great length of shank and neck give a powerful impression of health and muscular strength, and there is a sense of physical well-being conferring a benison...
...earned a master's degree in history in 1947. When he joined the foreign service, he had an eye on a career in Eu rope. After a stint in West Germany, he was transferred to State's Near Eastern and South Asian bureau-NEA in Foggy Bottom shorthand-and given assignments in Damascus and the Syrian city of Aleppo in the turbulent 1950s. While based in Syria, Atherton defied an unwritten State Department rule by taking a vacation in Israel, on the theory that it would help him understand both sides of the Middle East controversy...