Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...below the original offering price, breeding discontent among shareholders and managers. Part of the problem is that going public usually enriches a firm's original partners but not its younger and more energetic members who, because they can no longer become partners themselves, often become embittered and drift away. Though the firms charge as much as $1,000 a day for the services of a partner, costs are rising fast; starting salaries for M.B.A. graduates have, more than doubled since the 1950s. Lately, one of the industry's biggest customers, the Federal Government, has cut spending for consultants...
...hours after John Kennedy's assassination, the enormity of the event was too much to absorb. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, when parts of Washington were burned and looted, people stood in a stupor on the White House lawn and saw the smoke drift over them and watched as looters broke windows two blocks away in deserted streets...
...water to UConn in the opening moments of the contest. By 500 meters Radcliffe had narrowed the UConn lead to four seats. By the finish, Radcliffe was up by three. The 'Cliffe eight finished at 3:37, but began the race well past the starters point because of the drift involved in a floating start...
...Eastwood is not as good as he seems to think he is. As an actor, he is probably better than he allows himself to be. Meanwhile, the best you can say for High Plains Drifter is that the title is a low pun. Rarely are humble westerns permitted to drift around on such a highfalutin plane. That, however, is small comfort as this cold, gory and overthought movie unfolds...
Robert Triffin, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, warned: "Experience can only make you−and me−skeptical about the willingness and ability of responsible officials to reach sensible agreements." Yet such agreements are urgently needed, he said, "to end the present drift towards unilateral, nationalistic and mutually defeating policies, bound to bring disaster to all concerned...