Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...securities busi ness is mired in a painful recession. Caught between sharply rising costs and a sluggish volume of trading in the ner vous market, brokerage houses have closed scores of branch offices, laid off hundreds of workers and rushed into mergers to fight a flood...
epic / tragedy / comedy / pastoral / lyric in the flood days of sad stories...
During summer months, Broadway favorites flood the countryside where they are performed by members of the original cast, summer stock troupes or local players. Among this season's most frequent productions...
...resources like grazing lands or forests. The Federal Government has an obligation as a great landowner. I think we can find land, in addition to our great scenic or wild areas, which can be utilized to a higher degree, and we can improve on nature by reclamation, irrigation and flood-control projects. With the right management, we might graze a cow on half the land it takes now. Maybe we can improve on the time it takes to grow and harvest forests. Maybe we should conserve natural beauty not just for viewing but for putting oxygen back into...
...maturity. At home, Japanese consumers complain that they have been left behind in the scramble for export markets, and they are clamoring for more of the rewards of industrial expansion. Abroad, many of Japan's best trading partners are becoming increasingly impatient with the way that its businessmen flood the world with exports while keeping their own economy insulated from foreign goods and capital. These new problems confuse and disturb the Japanese. Kiichi Miyazawa, a leading economist, sums up the mood: "For years, our people learned to cope with poverty. We do not yet know how to cope with...