Word: glamoured
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...result, Polaroid stock is one of the favorite glamour issues on Wall Street. Anyone who invested $1,000 in the company in 1938 today has stock worth $3,575,000. Indeed, an investment of $1,000 in Polaroid ten years ago has grown to at least $4,750. The shares held by Land and his family, who control 15% of the total, are worth about half a billion dollars, probably making him the world's richest scientist...
...even have loved, only to die in England three years later--just twenty-five--overcome by a bitter winter. And I pictured Lotta Crabtree, the actress of the Wild West, dancing on tables in miners' saloons showered with coins and nuggets. But Janet Wilson James's biography dims the glamour by describing her tribulations--a stage-door mother, type-casting that kept her playing children's parts till the end of her career, and an increasingly lonely...
...reckless private conduct over the years kept him in political hot water. His first two marriages-to Showgirl Isabel Washington and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott-reflected Powell's affinity for glamour. His conquests were many. Some, like Yvette and his former-beauty-queen secretary, Corinne Huff, were even put on his staff payroll and paid $20,000 a year. In 1963 Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, won a $46,500 defamation judgment against Powell, who on TV called her a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. For nearly five years he managed to avoid payment, partly by staying...
...have a question for Gloria Steinem: How many times in her job has she felt frustrated? Although I am now a full-time housewife, less than a year ago I was a working wife. I had one of nursing's "glamour" jobs in the intensivecare unit of a hospital. The demands of the job were emotionally satisfying. Yet at times I felt another disaster would make me leave...
...general-surgeon-to-population ratio in prepaid group health plans ranges from 1 to 10,000 to 1 to 17,000.) Thus simply training more doctors will not solve the nation's medical dilemma. Instead, as an A.M.A. editorial states, medical schools should persuade more students to forgo glamour specialties like surgery in favor of those in which they can be better employed...