Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In answer to the question of whether one can buy a bottle of Gallo wine with a clear conscience, the UFW's New England, Cambridge and Harvard representatives feel that the case is not closed. "The Gallo management was obnoxious in their dealings with us, and they have to prove...
The Stock Market. The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen on eleven of the 14 trading days so far in 1978, for a decline of 54 points, and it closed last week at 776.94. In stock traders' minds, worries about inflation, interest rates and the dollar have outweighed all the...
Alarmed by broadcast stories about the manifesto on West German TV, which is watched by 80% of East Germans, Honecker called a Politburo meeting to deal with the crisis. The party leadership closed Der Spiegel's East Berlin bureau, the first such Communist action since East and West Germany...
In the perspectives of history, the mad have not been out of sight for very long. As recently as 1800, they were tourist attractions. Every Sunday thousands of paying visitors would go to watch them caper and babble in Bethlehem Hospital ("Bedlam") in London or the Bicetre in Paris. In...
The confrontation was pure Somerset Maugham. Nadia Boulanger crisply closed the student's composition book and handed it back to her young pupil. "You're right," she assured him. "You haven't any talent."