Word: downward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banks declined in July for two weeks, dropping by $262 million to $78.3 billion. One consequence is that interest rates are beginning to lessen, if ever so slightly. A string of three big recent bond issues -Weyerhaeuser, National Cash and Dow Chemical-all sold at successively lower yields, ranging downward from...
Calling themselves the Red Mountain Tribe (in honor of their favorite wine), the 40-odd staffers submitted to Max's economy in the interests of freedom and underground rebellion. They supplied their own typewriters, accepted salaries ranging downward from $80 a week-in the case of a dropout reporter from the Chicago Daily News, the remuneration of $7.25 for three weeks' work on an investigative story later picked up by the overground press...
...three, the frame tilts around her one way and then the other; she gasps, closes her eyes, and finally bends into the frame toward the camera. Ophuls cuts to a shot that rushes straight down into the net, simulatneously fading out into blackness. Although she can now only move downward, her jump expresses her will, a final transcendence of her situation. He final route of escape is the most desperate--straight into the camera, an attempt to penetrate the ultimate surface...
...ever a king speak thus? Probably not, but then these are exceptional times for once and future kings. The author of those wry and rueful words, lamenting a downward mobility forever out of his grasp, is H.R.H. Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, K.G., Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall in the peerage of England, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, and Lord of Renfrew in the peerage of Scotland, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland...
...this year. Richard Nixon's approach may fail. The effect on the Paris negotiations may be nil (see following story). The North Vietnamese could choose to increase rather than reduce their military effort. Despite these caveats, it is also possible that Nixon's tactics could start a downward trend on the violence scale...