Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ming vases? Antiques? Gold? Cattle? All can tumble out of favor and decline in price. So where is the perplexed American investor to park his extra cash and protect its value? Certainly not in a savings account. Had Phineas T. Barnum lived today, his famous dictum might well have been: There's a saver born every minute. In the inflationary 1970s, savers are suckers who stand to lose. If inflation should continue at February's 15.4% rate, every dollar put into a bank at 5¼% interest will become 91.4? in real money a year from...
King received a petition from the demonstrators at his home. He said later that his position in favor of nuclear power remained unchanged...
Councilor Lawrence Frisoli, who voted in favor of deleting the footage requirements told the council that it was "wasting the city's resources by buying a suit...
...rent control opponents, led by the Cambridge Property Owners and Taxpayers Association, testified in favor of two house resolutions before the state legislature's Joint Committee on Local Affairs. The first resolution would phase out rent control while the second would institute vacancy de-control, which would end rent control as tenants leave apartments...
...matched valor as he bests the Volscians, sometimes in singlehanded combat. The man of flinty aristocratic pride storms into view when he is honored with the rank of Roman consul, only to be banished when he reviles the tribunes of the commoners instead of currying their favor with mock humility and an ostentatious public display of his battle scars. When he turns against Rome and joins its enemies in a temper tantrum of crazed revenge, he is a scalded boy bent on killing the dearest thing he loves...