Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading critic of the policy. Yet many of Lance's bank loans had interest rates tied directly to the prime rate. When it rose, so did his interest charges. On the other hand, as a major holder of banking stock at the N.B.G., Lance stood to gain-as bank profitability gained-from hikes in the prime...
...Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking for Castaneda's ephemeral brujo, Don Juan. Others sought to gain an identity through encounters in the Esalen Institute's steamy communal baths...
...union's 384,000 fund participant members may exceed assets by as much as $5 billion. To close the gap, says Shannon, employers must increase their contributions by 20%, to $37 a month, while the rank and filers will have to work 30 years instead of 20 to gain their maximum pensions...
There was Joseph and Mary and Gene. Now there is Abigail. It is not at all likely that the long-separated wife of former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy will ever gain the fame, or notoriety, of those other American McCarthys. But in her own gentle way. Abigail McCarthy is making a deserved and distinctive name for herself as the most perceptive analyst of the precarious role of women in the male-dominated world of U.S. politics. First in her well-crafted autobiography. Private Faces/Public Places, now in her slim first novel, Abigail McCarthy skillfully details the insecurities and ambiguities that...
...never returns and she learns that what for her was true love was for him a casual affair. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and Noelle accordingly swears vengeance. Progressing from bedroom to bedroom, Noelle eventually becomes a famous actress or in a position to gain her revenge. By this time, Larry has married a pert American girl named Catherine and the audience has sat through another sequence of glossy romantic shots, this time in Washington. Noelle manages to hire Larry, recently out of work and desperate for a job, as the pilot of her private plane...