Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father Gigante offered prayers at a Planned Parenthood banquet, I'm sure his bishop would have been induced to comment publicly. As an American of Italian descent, I can only be embarrassed over the whole sad affair...
...number of factors are contributing to the market's advance. The persistent descent of interest rates is deflecting capital out of fixed-income investments and into stocks. The upsurge in the market itself creates a buoyant atmosphere for investing. Mildly improving corporate profits add to the sense that business is becoming better. Still, in the view of some analysts, the market has run ahead of economic reality. Henry M. Farrell, portfolio manager for the First National Bank of Columbia, S.C., contends that prices for many stocks are discounting 1972 and 1973 earnings. "The way things are going," he says...
BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL by Doris Lessing. 308 pages. Knopf...
...dealing with emotions-the failed hope of possessive love. Yellow: the story within the stories-the hope of art to make sense of all the rest. In effect, Miss Lessing has been working through this sequence of disillusion toward a private religion of her own. In Briefing for a Descent into Hell she has arrived...
...miles south of American Samoa, the spacecraft suddenly plummeted from the sky. A voice crackled over the radio: "Things are looking good." Then, in clear view of the recovery task force and millions of television watchers round the world, three big white-and-orange-striped parachutes unfurled, braking the descent of Apollo 14's command module, Kitty Hawk. Moments later, only 900 yards off the predicted target and just four seconds behind schedule, the heat-seared ship splashed into the water in a spectacular finale to man's third and most successful expedition to the surface...