Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without the narrative voice to give glimpses of Lady Chatterly's feelings, what remains? Only the bare plot outline: the story of a rich woman's affair with a gamekeeper. This has been put on film with relative case and with assured financial success. But it is not D. H. Lawrence's story. The movie version is not a tender love story, or the portrait of a woman being re-awakened to life, but merely a chronicle of fortuitous mutual lust...
From the outside, the accelerator complex is unimpressive, almost inconspicuous. The administrative building and surface structures are the same as those of other recent laboratory plain and boxlike, with large glass windows. The accelerator itself, with its grassy ramparts leading to bare concrete walls, appears more like a waterworks than anything else...
...vetoed one whole appropriations package passed by the legislature. He got into a fruitless fuss with Ray Miller, Cleveland's Democratic boss. For a while he said that he would not seek reelection, changed his mind, beat Attorney General Mark McElroy in the primary by a bare 33,000 votes...
Skimming around the first buoy, Mosbacher's lead had been reduced to two boat lengths, a bare 12 sec. By the second eight-mile mark, it was still only 14 sec. Then Gretel and Sturrock stole the day. His spinnaker ballooning firm and white, Sturrock caught a great, wind-driven wave under his stern and rode it like a surfboarder on a Pacific comber. As the Australians surged past, Mosbacher's Yanks heard a roaring war whoop booming out across the water. Weatherly tried to recover, but she snapped her spinnaker pole -and then it was too late...
...effort to cut swollen overhead, some were driven to drastic economies. In Glore, Forgan & Co.'s Chicago branch, all employees last month took a salary cut of from 5% to 10%. In San Francisco, the monthly take-home pay of some customers' men had slipped to a bare $150. Even in Manhattan, where the big brokerage houses can count on a steady, bread-and-butter flow of institutional security buying, brokers were canceling plans to buy new cars and working longer hours...