Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anonymous phone caller informed the Cambridge police that a bomb would go off in the dining room within five minutes. But when three policemen arrived at 8:40 no bomb had gone...
...either run the party [city, county, police, etc.] or it runs you," but now Mr. Big from which all emanated, is gone. Without someone running things how is Chicago going "to work?" Because Chicago has "worked" up to now. That's what they say all over...
...ship Torrey Canyon spilled over 30 million gal. of oil when it went aground off England's Cornwall coast in 1967. The Metula dumped about 16 million gal. of Persian Gulf crude when it grounded in 1974 in the Strait of Magellan, polluting an area where Charles Darwin had gone ashore more than a century earlier to study animals and plants. The Jacob Maersk lost or burned some 26 million gal. when it exploded off Portugal...
...company. Next thing Felker knew, Murdoch was negotiating with the biggest (23.8%) stockholder, Manhattan Socialite Carter Burden. In near desperation, Felker turned for help to Kay Graham, an old, close friend. By week's end, Murdoch seemed to have the upper hand after the bidding had gone to $7.50 a share for stock that had been traded over-the-counter for $2 a month earlier, raising the paper value of the company to some $13.4 million and attesting to its potential worth...
...valid knowledge be obtained, and that "no knowledge is genuine unless based on generally observable facts"--is that economics is not a science. It is not free of an underlying ideology or philosophy. What's more, it should not try to be. Neoclassical economists--Samuelson and his colleagues--have gone astray, writes Schumacher, surreptitiously sneaking value judgments into their theoretical toolkits, and by choosing the wrong values...