Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar force was quickly defeated by the Ugandan army in 1972, a year after Amin seized power. But this time the invaders seem to have the upper hand...
When interest rates decline and inflation moderates later this year, the long bearish stock market should rise. The time is not yet at hand, warn TIME'S economists, who recommend putting investment money into high-yielding Treasury bills until the recession bites. Even then, the bulls may not let out a full-throated roar. Warns Pechman: "The fact that we are suggesting that late this year may be a time to buy equities does not mean that equity prices will go through the roof." But, says Beryl Sprinkel, "the cheapest assets in this world today are U.S. stocks...
Anyone who is an expert at deciphering gobbledygook might lend a hand to C. Milton Allen, senior vice president of Houston's Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. For the past two months, he and 15 aides have been waging a bleary-eyed battle to make sense out of not just that mumbo-jumbo masterpiece but plenty of others like it. The language is from the pricing regulations drawn up by the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) to enforce Jimmy Carter's Stage II guidelines. The rules were supposed to put some muscle into the White House...
...elegant near North Side, discovered that theirs was about to become one of the largest condominium conversions ever. The buildings had been sold to a development group for $110 million. Says Barbara Molotsky, a tenant who pays $370 a month for her one-bedroom apartment and may have to hand over $50,000 to buy it: "I don't want to buy, but there just aren't any rentals left...
...painting like The Magician's Accomplices, 1926, with its weak drawing and fumbled tones, is not the work of a "natural" talent. An idea is there, but the hand does not yet know what to do with...