Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are just a sampling of the epithets that are being hurled back and forth between Democrats in one of the roughest gubernatorial campaigns in the gamy history of Illinois politics. Incumbent Dan Walker, 53, is stopping at almost nothing to keep his job in next week's party primary. Illinois Secretary of State Michael Hewlett, 61, is matching him blow for low blow...
Although stock prices remain stuck a bit below 1,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average, most Wall Streeters still think it is only a matter of time before the barrier crumbles and the U.S. economy continues its comeback. In back-and-forth trading last week the Dow average closed at 972.92, about even with the previous week's close. Simultaneously, however, the nation got some of the best news yet about prices and jobs. The wholesale price index in February dropped .5%; it was the fourth straight month in which that key indicator has either held steady...
...Gropius in the '30's and '40's the leadership of an heroic period in architecture. One member stressed that American civilization depends on its cities and saw that the GSD can become a major resource in solving urban problems if it can actually implement its objectives as set forth in the catalog and in the Dean's Report and increase its concern for the socio-economic-political aspects of design...
...COMMONEST of misconceptions about Arthur Hailey's books is that if not great literature, they must at least be superbly crafted--taut, gripping, smoothly written, and so forth. The fact is that's simply not it at all. Hailey's books are rather clumsily put together, all in exactly the same way, and while he could never be accused of overwriting his sentences are still graceless, his dialogue wooden, his characters two-dimensional. And his latest book, The Moneychangers, which came out in paperback last month, is a great deal like all his other books. It is about an American...
...last November, his polls showed him with a 45%-38% margin over Ford, though 17% were undecided. Following the President's first campaign visit in early February, Reagan fell slightly behind in the polls. Then, in the final weeks of campaigning, the pollsters' findings wavered back and forth. Still, on election eve, Reagan staffers anticipated victory...