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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those rates are still oppressively high, and it is anyone's guess how much farther they might come down and how soon. But the cuts had a tonic effect on businessmen and investors, who have been starved for any kind of good news. On the stock market, the Dow Jones industrial average bounded up 19 points on Monday, 15 on Wednesday, and by the close of trading Friday had leaped 52 points for the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Interest Rates Top Out | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...female hiring. And the vast increases just aren't there, nor are they projected in the action plan approved by HEW. If the central administration really believed that this new spirit does now exist and if its commitment to af- firmative action as strong as Leonard suggests, one might guess that the administration might use the opportunity to rewrite and strengthen its plan. But neither Bok nor Leonard thinks there is much value in the Currier House Woman's Group suggestion that the plan undergo a new review...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Bok's Tough Bargainer in the Action Office | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

When the list was posted, his name was not on it. He phoned up the professor, who had forgotten the promise. He reminded her; she replied: "Well, I guess I got ten Faulkners. Besides, I don't make promises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inside Looking Out | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...Clair, his sister says, was "very even-keelish" as a boy: "I would say Jim was what you'd call intellectually dominated. That is, he always seemed to do what was the logical, good think to do. I guess that's what prevented him from having escapades. He never shot arrows in the air, or whatever...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, * 1974, THE HARVARD CRIMSON INC. SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON, | Title: St. Clair Keeps Nixon Hanging On | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...agitation bore fruit at the ballot box. When a new CHUL was elected after the semester break, it voted unanimously to repeal the measure, and to set a 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio at Radcliffe. Anne L. Peretz, co-master of South House, said of the reversal, "I guess that people just don't like rocking the boat...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Undergraduates Caught in Housing Squeeze | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

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