Word: clue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacrilege then that I saw there in the spring? People pawing the ground in uncertainty, stealing fidgety glances at eachother seeking a clue as to how to react, and when caught, breaking out into a clutching sort of giggling? Now, not all were so unsure of themselves. Some, patrons, most probably, moved sure-footed, nodding their knowing appreciation like privileged insiders. But most everyone else was plainly lost. It was as if a huge culture gap lay between those established who "got it" and the philistines...
...shirt the more to accent Nora's radicalism. Torvald is the petty bourgeois straight arrow with no doubts about his superior sex role. But her rejection of empty role-playing is primitive and barely conscious. Her rebellion against what she knows to be wrong does not give her a clue as to what else is right. She sees no farther than the either-or choice confronting her directly: either she submits to the futile prospect of a life spent fortifying the egoism of her man, or she rejects men. Never does she question the system they represent...
...writer is clearly a promising young fellow. It was no surprise that he went on to win his first electoral victory - as a Tory - in 1900. The book is a fascinating curiosity and all the more tantalizing be cause it gives no clue as to why the young Tory, a few years later, joined the 1907 Liberal revolution that helped transform Old England into a 20th century state...
...whole estate has been guessed at $750 million or more. Although Picasso had long since parted with it, his Nude Woman of 1910 recently fetched a reported $1.1 million from the National Gallery. That is believed to be the highest price yet paid for a Picasso and a clue to future price tags...
Stock repurchases also bring another benefit: they raise a company's per-share earnings, which are closely watched by investment analysts as a clue to how well a firm is doing. Repurchased stock vanishes into a company's treasury and is not included in earnings calculations. A simplified example: if a company earns $20 million and has 10 million shares outstanding, it will report profits of $2 per share; if it buys up 2,000,000 shares, the same $20 million profit will be divided among 8,000,000 shares and will amount to $2.50 per share...