Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miami in the summer of 1972 was the scene of three political interactions between the young and the old--young Democrats and old Democrats, young Republicans and old Republicans, and demonstrators and police. Each face-off developed in its own way, and Mailer, who can't bear to consider himself as part of the old, wrestled continuously with the changing but shapeless form of the young, never quite pinning it all down at once...
...ethnics are under assault, the institutions they cherish-church, family, labor union -under a cloud. They have watched helplessly as the more affluent whites have fled the cities and the poor blacks have taken their place. They feel squeezed between a group that is deserting them and making them bear the brunt of social change and a group that is threatening their schools, neighborhoods and jobs. The combined recession and inflation has hit them hard. Says Baroni: "The ethnic worries how he is going to get the money to send his kid to Penn State and pay for his mother...
Mary G. Paget, coordinator of the Radcliffe sports program and assistant to the director of Harvard athletics, explained that the Radcliffe program has "begun to have systems that bear resemblance to Harvard's systems." "We're wise enough to realize we need men to help us," she said...
...take pride, as did my father and his father, in the products which bear our name...
...Fibonacci sequence goes 0, 1, 1. 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. with each number from the third on derived by adding the two previous numbers. Some market watchers insist that stock-price cycles follow Fibonacci numbers, and are composed, say, of five bull and three bear movements, with each movement subdivided into eight, 1 3 or 2 1 minor swings. The Jehovah's Witnesses sign within the past year has flashed "Paradise Soon" just before a nice market rally, and "Dead Will Rise" immediately before prices of some long-depressed stocks began going back...