Word: boils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public ownership has been studied and restudied ever since Merrill Lynch suggested the idea in 1963. The issue was brought to a boil in May, when Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, an aggressive company that specializes in institutional business, needed new sources of capital to finance expansion, and announced that it was willing to quit the exchange in order to go public. Since then, Chairman Daniel J. Cullen of Walston & Co. has said that his firm will go public if the exchange approves. Members of regional exchanges have also started pressing for permission to sell stock...
...like to cut within a scene, the result being a tremendous number of disconnected short sequences which leave one with no sense of what one character is trying to do or be in relation to the next, or any sense that what they are doing was once (in Heinrich Boil's novel Billiards at Half-Past Nine) a plot...
...solar system, man has had to conquer the fear of the dangers which the unknown conceals not only as they are but as he fancies them," writes De Madariaga. "The companions of Bartholomeu Diaz had to conquer the fear that the ocean at and beyond the equator might boil or drop into a cosmic precipice; the companions of Columbus feared griffins, sirens, men with tails or with their heads screwed to their navels. Our astronauts' imagination is more disciplined by knowledge, but even in our day, when fancy and imagination have been disposed of, what remains is forbidding enough...
Trade Talk. The Rumanians were delighted by the impending visit, but, like almost everyone else, a little puzzled by why Nixon was coming. In essence, the Washington explanation seemed to boil down to: 1) he was asked, and 2) why not? In his talks with Rumania's President and party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, Nixon will probably sound him out on Soviet and Chinese intentions. He may say some confidential things about Viet Nam for Ceausescu to pass along to Ha noi. The President will surely be cautious, however, not to seem to be too cozy. For Nixon is aware...
...begin burning hydrogen in its outer layers and gradually expand-perhaps to 100 times its present size-turning into a giant red globe that will fill most of the sky when seen from earth. Unfortunately, man will not be around to see this spectacular view. The expanding sun will boil away the oceans, melt rock and heat the earth's surface to 4,000 degrees F. It will leave man's dwelling place a lifeless inferno...