Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Nixon's speech on the widening Indochinese war bore some remarkable -and haunting-similarities to speeches that the public has heard before. The earlier words are those of his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson. Samples...
...quarter profits made clear last week that such a turnaround had not yet occurred. A preliminary tabulation of 692 corporations by New York's First National City Bank showed that profits in 1970's first quarter declined 7% from the same quarter last year. As usual, manufacturers bore the brunt of a business slowdown. Their profits fell 9% from a year ago, and 13% compared with the last quarter of 1969. The sharpest losses were in electrical equipment, largely because of last winter's three-month General Electric strike, and in steel, building materials and aerospace...
...spends her time meditating on the Absolute and dragging electric heaters around her enormous house in a futile effort to keep warm. Her husband, a retired army colonel and career bore, schemes to prevent unknown forces from tricking him out of May's money. Alice, the colonel's daughter by an earlier marriage, wants to escape the house, where she serves her father's whim and writes morose poetry on the side. Oliver, May's son, is destined for a brilliant career, if only he could get down to choosing...
...installation of emergency locks on glass doors in University Hall I bore with good humor, even though the cost of the glass the anticipated invader would break in order to reach his hand through to unlock the lock was smaller than the cost of the lock itself. But bars on the window are another matter. In our office, they are screwed into years-old wood which would never withstand a good, strong kick, negating their effectiveness at the outset. The assumption that protestors would sneak in a basement window rather than march openly through normal entryways I also find offensive...
...potential has attracted dozens of companies. Union Oil Co. of California is drilling off Sumatra; Cities Service brought a rig in from Beaumont, Tex., to bore beneath the Java Sea. Others scheduled to begin exploration wells this year include Continental Oil, Phillips Petroleum, and possibly Italy's state-controlled AGIP. Last month a number of new offshore exploration contracts were signed. British Petroleum agreed to invest $8,500,000 in the first eight years of a 30-year contract. Gulf & Western Industries, the Manhattan-based conglomerate that has never been in the oil-drilling business, also signed a pact...