Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combination of improved technology and heavy capital investment. An ever increasing share of total U.S. farm output is produced on big, heavily capitalized farms. The top 9% of the farms account for 50% of total farm production. The top 3% of the farms produce as much as the bottom 80%. Large-scale farmers make exceedingly good livings-not from handling plows and pitchforks energetically, but from managing capital effectively...
...India. Saying his goodbyes in New Delhi, the lanky professor paid a last visit with his family to the zoo, where they once spent a few queasy minutes getting used to the pachyderm pace. Though a certain tension had developed between Galbraith and his colleagues back home in Foggy Bottom, he declared himself "pleased, extremely pleased" with his tour of duty. India apparently was pleased too. In a rare break with protocol, Prime Minister Nehru publicly lauded Galbraith. "I am sorry he is going. He is a brilliant man and has helped India in many ways. We are thankful...
...fact, the Baltimore club quickly became immersed in one of the major slumps of the year and fell to the bottom of the League. Other challengers, like the White Sox, Cleveland, and Boston, flirted with the idea of actually leading the League, but eventually gave it up as too dangerous...
...gold-braided sleeve. It has worked out a scheme for scuttling the decommissioned submarine Toro near the place where Thresher sank. As Toro settles through the water followed by sonar beams, she will tell how the currents affect a sinking submarine. Her crushed hulk lying on the bottom, its position pinpointed, will tell the dogged Navy, as it continues its search, what Thresher should look like to oceanographic instruments...
Neither the French Revolution nor the Napoleonic Wars, not even the American Civil War, has obsessed novelists as much as the Third Reich. There human nature hit rock bottom, and it has been an irresistible temptation to novelists to try to tell why. Twenty years after the event, there are more novels than ever on the Nazi era-as if crime of such magnitude takes years to digest...