Word: standard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boast, Meyer Lansky, the gang's leading financial wizard, was actually being overly modest when he chortled in 1966: "We're bigger than U.S. Steel." Measured in terms of profits, Cosa Nostra and affiliates are as big as U.S. Steel, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, Ford Motor Co., IBM, Chrysler and RCA put together...
...Local conditions vary considerably, but on a national basis, Chrysler and American Motors face the biggest cleanup problem. Their supply of unsold new cars, compared with the recent rate of sales, is substantially larger than that of either General Motors or Ford. Chrysler, for instance, is overstocked with both standard and top-of-the-line Plymouths and Dodges partly because G.M. has made inroads into Chrysler's share of the market among taxi and car-rental companies...
...those novelists who are cursed with a shorter attention span than their readers. His style is to restlessly gad about-from character to character, from scene to scene -always in the name of art, of course. Between the lines one can almost hear him learnedly murmuring the standard excuse: "Just reflecting the fragmentation of contemporary experience...
...proposed substitute introduces a standard federal welfare minimum for the first time and would raise basic benefits in the 20 states now paying less than that figure: $1,600 a year for a family of four, with an extra $300 for each additional member. The basic allowance would be reduced as private income increases, but the family would be allowed to keep more of its earnings than at present. When the family of four reaches an income of $3,920, all federal assistance would end. Benefits paid by local or state authorities, however, could be added to the total...
...Eugene P. Odum, 55, of the University of Georgia, is a specialist on estuarine marshes and author of the standard college textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology. "We have got to stop thinking of ourselves as being in the growth stage of civilization and realize that we are in the mature stage," says Odum. "Up to now we have been a consumptive, destructive civilization. We must now learn to recycle and reuse." Under his direction, the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology is studying how tidewater marshes help to produce 90% of the country's seafood...