Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Wattenberg argue. "But once they are inaugurated, it is no simple matter to stay there." The authors suggest that Nixon increasingly will have to decide issues on the basis of what is best for the nation, not for the right or the left. In so doing, he erodes his support on one side or the other and, over the long run, both...
...mother had a college degree, and when she needed a job, what did they offer her? A job demonstrating potato peelers in the basement of a department store. She didn't take it." Instead, Mrs. Millett sold insurance on commission; the first year, with three children to support, she made less than $1,000. "If you're a man, the insurance company finds out what the family needs and pays you a salary. But women don't get a salary . . . she got no help from society...
Seething Anger. According to another theory, the impediment is a symptom of buried hostility. Says Psychologist Murry Snyder, executive director of New York City's Speech Rehabilitation Institute: "Underneath the cloak of inhibition and mild manner, the stutterer often seethes with anger." In support of this theory, he and others note that the stutterer can be fluent, and usually is, in circumstances that do not require him to communicate his own feelings: when he is an actor, for example, delivering someone else's words to an audience of strangers...
...money through the failure of a member firm" ?the New York Stock Exchange has raised a rescue fund by assessing its members. When a brokerage fails, the exchange draws on the fund to pay off the creditors, mostly bankers. Brokerages commonly use customers' margin stock as collateral to support bank loans. The danger to investors is that, if a firm fails and the exchange's trust fund runs out of money, banks will hold on to the stock of the margin customers...
Hayakawa is unlikely to be chosen; the corporation is clearly leaning toward men with more flexibility. Still, liberal students and faculty members were astounded by his support. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith was moved to sarcasm. Referring to Harvard's autocratic president from 1909 to 1933, Galbraith observed: "I'm astonished they did not go for Lawrence Lowell. Perhaps they did not know he was dead...