Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organizers had billed it as "A Little Bit of Heaven." But by the time the annual West Indian carnival in London's Netting Hill district ended last week, Europe's largest celebration for Caribbean immigrants had turned into a nasty bit of hell-for the second year...
According to folk wisdom in many cultures, redheaded people tend to be a bit temperamental. An Israeli researcher believes there may be something to the ancient prejudice. At the Honolulu conference, Psychiatrist Michael Bar, of Israel's Shalvata Psychiatric Center, reported a study showing that redheaded children are three or four times more likely than others to develop "hyperactive syndrome" -whose symptoms include overexcitability, short attention span, quick feelings of frustration and, usually, excessive aggressiveness...
...dream was dented a bit during the last recession; mortgage money became so scarce that relatively few new houses were built. But the big and mercurial housing industry, which fell harder than almost any other business during the slump, is coming on strong in the current economic recovery. This year builders will hammer together 1.9 million dwellings, about three-quarters of them single-family homes and the rest apartments. That is still short of the 2 million-plus that the industry reached in three years of the early 1970s, but a spectacular rebound from the low of February 1975, when...
Such speculation is common in California and is beginning to appear in other states. Indeed, California is a housing Oz unto itself; its population is still growing faster than that of any other large state except Texas; the recession bit especially deep in California, creating a huge backlog of demand, and strict environmental requirements severely limit the land available for housing. Prices are starting to level off, but the level is in the stratosphere. In platinum-plated Beverly Hills, one cynical real estate broker exclaims: "Oh, I have such a dog on the market right now! Come to my Sunday...
...gonna change the world, sort of," declared Mike Wimer '81. After a bit of reflection, and some suggested amendments to his statement by a group of freshmen standing nearby, Wimer added, "This is gonna be a partying class...