Word: sweetened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government pledge to hold the line on wages is far more likely to stir opposition. Giscard indicated that the government would try to hold wages to a 4% rise during negotiations next month, matching the increase so far this year in the cost of living. To sweeten the medicine-and partially disarm the opposition-the minister slightly eased the tax load and promised to raise family allowances for low-income groups, as well as to increase old-age pensions for everybody...
Chinese diplomats in Warsaw: "The U.S. can do little to sweeten the pot. When Peking is ready to talk seriously, it will -it is as simple and as frustrating as that...
...WARRANTS are often issued to sweeten takeover offers, especially unfriendly ones. The holder of a warrant has an option to buy shares of the issuing company in the future, at a fixed price. Warrants carry no voting rights, earn no dividends, involve pure speculation. Technically, they have no value at all unless the common stock climbs above the option price. They were in disrepute for most of the years since the Depression because their volatile prices make them extra risky for investors. But warrants caught on again after LTV and Gulf & Western used them to pay for acquisitions. Issued...
...Chitty Bang Bang is a picture for the ages-the ages between five and twelve. After that, interest is bound to slacken into hostility or slumber. With valid reason. The movie, based on Ian Fleming's only children's book, is a story with enough saccharine to sweeten the Sargasso...
Clearly, the producers of Julia are following the old nostrum: "If you can't lick the problem, sweeten it to death." By the standards of TV, this sort of treatment works; Julia is currently ranked No. 6 in the Nielsen ratings. Analyzing those numbers, NBC statisticians report that Julia attracts an "upscale" audience -more urban, wealthier and better educated than the average. There are no indications of either a boycott by Southern whites or heavier tune-in among blacks. Predictably, though, Negro militants are outraged. And, to be sure, Julia is rarely confronted with the tough problems of being...