Word: fiftieth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union nodded their approval. Meanwhile, Florida vegetable growers are asking the government to restrict imports of Mexican tomatoes by requiring costly packaging. Northeastern manufacturers and labor unions are railing at the flood of shoes and textiles from Brazil and lobbying for the government import restrictions. On the fiftieth anniversary of America's last era of protectionism, it appears American politicians are on the verge of celebrating by reviving import restrictions...
...remaining in the third stanza, Harvard trailed 20-0 and desperately tried to get some back by going to the air. Suffice to say that the most exciting moment of the drive for the Crimson was the announcement in the press box that this was Bob Cavileer's fiftieth year as the Harvard statistician...
...Taiwan's jitters are diplomatic, not economic. Taiwan is today a mini-industrial power. Although the island's population-16.6 million-is only one-fiftieth of mainland China's, its trade with the U.S. is 14 times greater than that of its huge neighbor-nearly $5 billion last year. Taiwan's robust growth rate-more than 10% in most of the years since the 1960s-has boosted its G.N.P. to just over $17 billion. During the worldwide recession of 1974-75, inflation whirled up to a 40% annual rate for a while, but the regime...
...like to see President Bok go out and make fundraising for basketball a priority. I just read about how he went to Japan and raised a million dollars for the East Asian Department in one month. We're not asking for a million dollars. Christ, if we had a fiftieth of that...
THIS DEVOTION to cerebral abstraction and the life of the studio became increasingly hardened as Degas moved past his fiftieth year and turned more bitter and misanthropic. His eyesight was failing, and his inability to work in less than full light led him to turn increasingly to sculpture. Profound disillusionment and contempt for much of life set in; along with his love of setting mental problems for himself through his art, this frustration suggests some personal reasons for the effect that most of these bronzes produce. The awkward, tortured poses both challenged Degas as master of design and visually expressed...