Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critical element in the Carter assessment of his counterparts is Rosalynn. When the champagne has been drained and the music has died, Jimmy and Rosalynn sit down together and add it all up. Rosalynn has diminished Prime Ministers with one cool sentence or helped, as with Japan's Takeo Fukuda, elevate them to higher esteem...
...Keeping cool, of course, does not mean giving up. Far from it. Because it has refused to abandon its fundamental tenet-that Peking's leaders are revolutionary upstarts and not the legitimate rulers of China-the Nationalist regime established in Taipei by Chiang Kai-shek when he fled the mainland in 1949 has become a diplomatic Ishmael. Since 1971, when Taiwan was expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking, a total of 39 countries have severed relations with Taipei. Today only 23 nations maintain diplomatic relations, and the U.S. and staunchly anti-Communist Saudi Arabia...
...many economic fronts, the news was good last week. The cost of living in July rose only at an annual rate of 4.9%, the lowest monthly increase since December; housing starts jumped to an annual rate of more than 2 million, a cool 46% ahead of a year earlier; corporate profits increased 11.4% in the second quarter. But all this was lost on Wall Street, where stock traders continued to fret about everything from interest rates to new tax legislation. The Dow Jones industrial average, the market's most widely watched barometer, dropped 7.62 points last week...
Given an arbitrary height of 300 ft. at which to fly, the distance traveled in 90 sec. would be a mere 25,000 miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed...
...Angry Young Men, Author Alan Sillitoe never lost his temper in his books. The working-class characters in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1959) and Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1960) did indeed rail at the upward immobility of the British class system; it was Sillitoe's cool precision in portraying them that made these fumings so hot to the touch. Sillitoe's restraint, his continued attention to the Nottinghamshire region of his own childhood, are quiet virtues that the noisy passage of 20 trendy years in England sometimes eclipsed. On the evidence of his 14th novel...