Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar to many Americans: even with a handsome salary ($37,800), he was not going to be able to put all his children through college. Bell's eldest son will enter the University of Utah in September (room, board and tuition: $2,700); two other sons will soon follow...
...present its 13 beds in semiprivate rooms are limited to cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy and must periodically return to the hospital for several days or even weeks. The patients are carefully screened. They must be able to walk about, eat and bathe without assistance, follow their varying schedules for medications, keep their rooms neat and plan their own amusements. In spite of the unit's lack of amenities, its occupancy rate is 95%, higher than the rest of the hospital, and a waiting list is rapidly building...
...romantic comedy into an existential tragedy, Cromwell goes on to throw in a little of every modern dramatic technique available. We get flashbacks, fantasies, and changing perspectives. He gives us satire, Freudian complexes, and some theater of the absurd for good measure. Shakespeare's plot is hard enough to follow; Cromwell's is almost impenetrable...
...piece Dixieland band on the side) but concluded that opportunities for engineers were limited in the unsettled times after World War I and went into Wall Street instead. He scoffs today at the idea that his reputation is making his forecasts self-fulfilling prophecies. The market, he asserts, will follow cycles of its own whatever he says. In any case, he does not choose to become rich by following his own advice. "I don't trade in the market. It interferes with my work. It's a full-time job watching the tapes." But he does fairly well...
Almost from the moment Land came out with his camera in 1947, there has been speculation that Kodak would sooner or later follow through. Many analysts were convinced the time had come in 1963. Instead, Kodak then brought out its Instamatic line, in the belief that a sizable market still existed for simple, cheap, easily loaded cameras. It was right; film usage by the average amateur more than doubled...