Word: bring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy left Harvard for good in 1956 and at the age of 30 in 1962, filled his brother John's seat in the Senate. He has remained there since. His classmates are acutely aware of his membership in their ranks. In their Class Report statements some urge him to bring even greater renown to the class, while other write things like "President Carter has been a disaster for this country and I don't think our classmate's performance would be much better...
...Jersey shore. Farther in the future, Ketelsen has hopes for geopres-surized gas-squeezing out large amounts of methane that is mixed in with sea water in mammoth caverns along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The $3-per-bbl. tax credit, now proposed by the Administration, would bring Colorado's oil shale to the brink of profitability. In sum, says Ketelsen, "If we properly develop the energy sources we have in the Americas, we could end up in a strong position and have a very exciting two or three decades...
Venice's recovery has not been easy. Many wells have been capped; aqueducts now bring in water from the Po Valley. To reduce the smog that has been eating away at Venice's marbled monuments, factories have installed filters on smokestacks and homeowners are turning increasingly to natural gas instead of sulfurous coal. City fathers are also planning new sewage systems, as well as a widening of the shipping locks that lead into Venice's historic lagoon. All that should help ensure the survival of this crowning jewel of the Adriatic...
...used to send the dollar to the grocery with orders to bring back a pound of coffee. I figured this would teach it humility. Instead, it went into a severe depression which psychiatry couldn't cure because it has no way of treating a dollar unless accompanied by 34 others, which I didn't have at the time...
...comes down to its detritus--the stubs of train tickets, Circle Line passes, a faded flower pressed in an old book. The artifacts themselves are not so important, of course; rather it is the spinning web of connections made and missed, the spiritual passings and associations that the artifacts bring to mind. Not stirring stuff perhaps, but resolutely, even defiantly individual. And as Elizabeth Hardwick writes in this beautiful and opaque short book, which is certainly not autobiography but not quite fiction...