Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...column but as a value to be treasured more deeply than tact or taste. "Nothing I wrote was untrue," she snaps, when he accuses her of humiliating him deliberately. She closes the discussion by citing her work's endorsement by contemporary society's highest authority: "I think I'd better warn you that I've had interest in a movie sale...
...even worse inflation?and then a sharp recession later on. Private economists as ideologically diverse as Conservative Alan Greenspan and Liberal Arthur Okun, both members of TIME'S Board of Economists, support the case for tighter money. Says Greenspan: "A recession is unavoidable. The sooner we have it, the better off the economy will be." Adds Okun: "Despite high interest rates, there is no place in this economy where anybody is saying no to a borrower...
...work. "I wanted to make a film that was more serious than Annie Hall, a serious picture that had laughs in it," he says. "I felt decent about Manhattan at the time I did it; it does go farther than Annie Hall. But 1 think now I could do better. Of course, if my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel I've done my job." He is only half joking. It is no wonder that his original title for Annie Hall was Anhedonia, a psychoanalytic term that means "incapable of experiencing pleasure...
...they can convert 16%. To intensify the sun's rays, the Los Angeles project would use parabolic and elliptical cells instead of flat ones. Arco Solar and other companies including Exxon, Mobil and Shell are working in intense rivalry and secrecy on such matters as improving storage batteries, finding better materials to substitute for silicon and even mass-producing flat "ribbons" of silicon to replace the present chunky and uneconomical crystals...
...Meyer's money to buy out the competition and create a morning monopoly in Washington. According to conventional wisdom, that is the time when publishers kick out the reporters and make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority. Graham's suicide in 1963 suddenly pushed his shy wife Katharine into the job of publisher. To nearly everyone's surprise, she rose to the challenge, hired the editors who hired the reporters who took on, eventually, the house that Nixon built. Similarly...