Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world." He has said that his dealings with the U.S. would not be "so very different" from those of the current regime "but would be less abrasive." On domestic issues, he has downplayed parts of the Socialist-Communist platform that call for greater nationalization of industry and for a crash housing program by asserting that he would have to go slow "now that the economy is growing at a rate of 4.5% instead of 6%." He has promised to strengthen the franc and protect savings accounts against inflation-a prime concern of the bourgeois-by increasing the interest rate paid...
...today is Pakistan's Prime Minister. · Died. Gerald Martin Loeb, 74, wise stockbroker and bestselling author (The Battle for Investment Survival); of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Loeb joined the E.F. Hutton brokerage house in 1922, retiring as vice chairman in 1965. He predicted the 1929 crash in time to unload all his holdings and those of his customers and contended throughout his career that there is no place where knowledge will pay an individual as rich a reward as Wall Street...
Both Harvard and MIT have begun crash building programs, both to house more of their own students and faculty, and to increase the supply of low income housing in the city. MIT recently completed three housing complexes for the elderly, while Harvard has several developments either under construction or in the planning stages...
WHEN WE got back to the trailer, Patty said baby Sarah needed some milk and eggs and could we go to the store? I offered to take my car, but Kenny said naw, we'd go on the motorcycle. He handed me a Bell crash helmet with a wraparound visor and we went out behind the trailer. "I came within a gnat's ass of bein' a road racer a while back," said Kenny. "But you begin to look at things a little different when you got a wife and kid to support...
...visor against Kenny's bowed back. Barns, fences, houses, cows, trailers, bridges, gardens, signs, dogs and clotheslines flew back. A calm center within me, which had long ago abandoned the idea of bailing out, began to consider two things. One, how far would we roll if a crash occurred. And two, how fast we were going, which would explain the number one. I counted telephone poles. We passed two poles in two seconds. Poles about fifty yards apart. A hundred yards in two seconds. Let's see, eighteen times a hundred yards is a mile. A mile in thirty...