Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average cost of 30-year, fixed-rate home mortgages to 8.47%, the highest level in 22 months. Just last October, the rate stood at 6.74%. At the same time, stock prices gave jittery investors another wild ride as the Dow average plunged nearly 84 points at the opening bell Monday before finishing up 38 points for the week on Friday...
...another woman. Before her death, few had ever heard of the 30-year-old American expatriate. But with the posthumous publication of Ariel, the bleak, violent yet beautiful volume of poetry she produced in the last months of her life, Plath's legend was born. In 1971 The Bell Jar, Plath's novel about her nervous breakdown during college, was published in America and became wildly popular...
Malcolm is sympathetic to Hughes, although he nonetheless comes off poorly in her book, willing to sell the American rights to The Bell Jar, which Plath had published under a pseudonym in England and which her mother did not want to be published in the U.S., in order to buy a third home. Where Plath is concerned, Hughes plays two roles that are hopelessly in conflict: he is both Plath's faithless husband and also her literary executor, so whenever a writer is denied access to Plath's papers, he or she can accuse Hughes of trying to cover...
After reading 700 pages of rules governing the cable-television business, Southwestern Bell said no thanks to a planned $4.9 billion merger with Cox, the country's sixth largest cable system. "It's unlikely the cable industry can generate the cash flow we expected," concluded a senior vice president of Southwestern, based in San Antonio, Texas. This deal is the second to fall apart following the FCC announcement of another round of 7% cuts in cable rates. Bell Atlantic mentioned the rate cutbacks when it scuttled its planned $20 billion takeover of TCI last February...
...very serious and straight arrow, which was off the bell curve in the 1960s," says David W. Siktberg '70, a suitemate of Barrett. "He wore suits frequently, as I recall...