Word: drews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They spent even though real personal income declined. Americans fought against the shrinking of their incomes in three ways: they sent more and more spouses to work; they drew down their personal savings; and they plunged more deeply into debt. But these defenses are rapidly being exhausted. Fully 60% of all U.S. women aged 20 to 64 hold paying jobs; not many more housewives are in a position to go to work. Savings have declined since the early 1970s from 7.4% of income to a modern low of 4.3%. Consumer installment credit has surged from $210.8 billion...
...hardware store in El Paso, 111. (pop. 2,550), near Peoria. He was a debate champion in college and earned a doctorate at Louvain University in Belgium. Before TV stardom he was a renowned philosophy professor at Catholic University of America, and a pioneer radio preacher whose programs drew 6,000 letters a day. He wrote more than 50 books (among them God and Intelligence, Peace of Soul, Three to Get Married), and was almost as famous for person-to-person conversions as for oratory. Among his worldly converts: Louis Budenz, managing editor of the Communist Daily Worker; Columnist Heywood...
University leaders drew the boundaries almost seven years ago, in an effort to curb property speculation in neighborhoods surrounding Harvard...
...whose father, a captain in Lon Nol's army, was killed by Pol Pot's forces. Now she listlessly waved her arms as she sang a song titled The Day They Killed My Father. At the end, when she described her father's death, she drew a forefinger across her throat, as if to slash...
Arguing for the Government, Assistant Attorney General Drew Days maintained that Congress had no need to provide a detailed justification for the 10% set-aside, since it had "unique competence" to right past wrongs as it saw fit. Although the Government had been trying to help minority businesses in various ways for ten years, going back to the Nixon Administration's "black capitalism" campaign, Days said, "Congress concluded that these measures simply had not worked," and that quotas therefore were necessary...