Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pick up someone at the track. There are enough bettors who are overweight, alcoholic, and divorced to keep you busy til all your assets are gone...
...disaster areas. 40% of the soybean crop in the state has been destroyed, costing farmers nearly $60 million. Damage to Georgia's corn crop has reached $162 million, and hay and pastureland losses total another $102 million. In Alabama, officials say three-quarters of the corn crop is gone, and certain counties in the Florida panhandle report the destruction of 95% of their corn and hay. The drought has proved a boon for bugs: without rain, insecticides fail to spread beneath the surface crust to the roots...
...Times diatribe was clearly a signal both to other Communist parties in Western Europe and to Moscow's captive regimes in the East. Spanish party leaders who have traveled in Eastern Europe lately have met chilly and even hostile official receptions just about everywhere they have gone outside Tito's Yugoslavia and Nicolae Ceausescu's Rumania. Says one such traveler: "I got the feeling that the governments didn't know how to react and were waiting for a sign from Moscow...
...were clearly the Saudis-and to some extent consumers. The Saudis are fond of pointing out that if everybody settles now at 10%, the price of Middle East oil for the full year will average lower than it would if they had stayed at 5% and everybody else had gone...
...underpin Auchincloss's latest novel. The Dark Lady. It is a Social Register version of A Star Is Born-a tale of two women allied in a successful assault on wealth, fame and political power. The star is Elesina Dart, a beauty of good background who has gone through two marriages and flubbed one promising theatrical career. The impresario is Ivy Trask, a cynical, shrewd middle-aged fashion editor and social arbiter at Broadlawns, the Westchester estate of Judge Irving Stein, banker and art collector...