Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essays are often contradictory or downright muddy: "Man, at bottom, is not entirely guilty, since he did not begin history; nor entirely innocent, since he continues it." Nor, despite lifelong claims and yearnings, was Camus a true philosopher, with an organized system of thought. But he is frequently something more valuable: a reliable witness. Observes Critic Wilfrid Sheed: "Like Thomas Aquinas, who 'saw' something just before his death that made all his writings seem like straw," men like Albert Camus "seem to have 'seen something' which makes a good deal, anyway, seem like straw . . . What they...
...were treated to Montclair State's Carol Blazejouski's 52-point performance ?Garden planners started to work on a women's tournament and similar bookings. Said one official: "We are in business to make a profit. If it helps women's sports, so much the better. But the bottom line is the bottom line?we can make money on women's basketball...
...lucky as Torrez was, Baltimore's Dennis Martinez was the picture of ill will as his record dropped to 6-5. It started as early as the bottom of the first, when as with two outs Jim Rice smashed his ninth triple of the season to right field, and Ken Singleton chased and kicked the ball just long enough for Rice to comehome with an unearned...
...Anchorage's keel rides 52 ft. below the surface like the bottom of a rogue iceberg. Imagine a seven-story office building a block long filled with crude oil, and a sense of the economic and environmental impact of an average supertanker comes clear. A single trip south is worth $11 million to Arco. Refined, this one load could fuel 20,000 cars and heat 6,000 average-size houses for a year. If spilled, it would foul hundreds of miles of coastal beach, kill unbelievable amounts of sea life. Either way, the stakes are high...
...with businessmen. Though he created a million-dollar agribusiness, he is a rural populist, and so he has been suspicious of big interests, including corporations. In just the past several months, however, the President has come to believe that many business chiefs are much like himself?up from the bottom, and not without compassion?and that they may have some provocative ideas about his No, 1 domestic problem: the economy...