Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 3.8% in May. That was only half as much as April's advance; and it was the second month in a row that the rate of increase has declined. Next the Commerce Department disclosed that its index of twelve leading indicators of the economy dropped fractionally in May, a sign that overall demand and production may level off in the months ahead and eventually lead to price stability...
...connect the site with Port Hedland, which until the iron boom had been a decaying northwestern port on waters swarming with deadly stonefish, sea snakes and sharks. When a despondent prospector blew himself up on the front porch of the Esplanade Hotel a decade ago, he disturbed only half a dozen people...
...Anaconda Co., the world's biggest copper producer, refused two years ago to sell Chile any portion of its huge Chuquicamata and El Salvador mines, the source of 61% of the company's annual production and half of its earnings. Since then, the Latin American political winds have shifted. Last week Anaconda management decided that paid-for nationalization of the two mines, offered by moderate President Eduardo Frei, was better than the outright expropriation that Chilean leftists were demanding...
...than the blacks, who, he says, had limited but precise objectives. He chides students for being in love with revolution-"perpetual change, perpetual spontaneity"-for its own sake, as if it were a marvelous formula for releasing all the virtues, including love. On the other hand, Spender complains, given half a chance student-reb els go all brisk, like "frustrated bureaucrats." (As he observes: "The first thing they set up is a committee...
...final picture of Spender may be the self-portrait that shows him at the Sorbonne, still full of good will but revolutionized almost to tears. "One longed," he says, "to hear a professor talk for half an hour about Racine...