Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Texas the bus enters a stretch of icy country that turns out to last some 2,000 miles, almost to New York, in fact. Wrecked semitrucks and skidded cars begin to litter the roadside. At one stop, a shocked, trembling trucker keeps saying: "There were cars all around me, and this little one pulled right in front...
...although lately the rate has eased back slightly. Already MMCs account for a startling $80 billion in deposits, and some bankers are wondering whether they were such a good idea. Their purpose was to keep banks flush with mortgage money, which dries up when interest rates rise and people begin emptying out savings accounts to buy high-interest bonds. While the MMCs have prevented that from happening, they have also led banks into a tight profit squeeze, since they have had to pay more for their money as T-bill rates climb...
...essential Waugh hero is a British Don Quixote dejectedly tilting at the 20th century. His troubles begin with a code of honor that is ill suited for campaigns in society or on the battlefield. Humor is shaped by innumerable collisions with bad manners, bad writing, bad architecture and bad service...
...enough people in the papers say we aren't interested in minorities, then eventually that is what will begin to happen," Hargadon said...
Some scientists matter-of-factly dismiss the problem of creation. Says Harvey Tananbaum, an X-ray astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory: "That first instant of creation is not relevant as long as we do not have the laws to begin to understand it. It is a question for philosophers and religionists, not for scientists." Adds Geoffrey Burbidge, director of Kitt Peak National Observatory: "Principles and concepts cannot be measured. A question like 'Who imposed the order?' is metaphysical." Still, virtually everyone -both scientists and laymen-is taken by the sheer unthinkable opacity of the creation...