Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misty horizon, 51 miles off shore, 100 oil workers struggled desperately on Union Oil Co.'s 150-ft.-high Platform A, beneath which oil was leaking steadily from a fissure in the ocean floor. Barges carrying 15,000 barrels of sealant were towed to the platform, where the crew pumped the plasticlike substance down into a 3,500-ft. hole in the ocean's bottom at a rate of 1,500 barrels an hour. For days, capping efforts had been stymied by high seas, and escaping oil had continued to spread out from the long-legged...
...flaring and his Havana cigar lit, Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone scrunches down in his high-backed chair at his company's nondescript headquarters on Chicago's North Side. "Wealth is power," he proclaims. "Wealth is good. With money you can do good-your whole horizon changes...
...place you might expect the smelter superintendent of a Montana copper mine to have." Then the interview moved to Agnelli's chalet on the top of Turin's highest hill, 1,200 ft. above the city. "The breathtaking view of the snowcapped Alps taking up half the horizon," said Bell, "more than made up for the spartan factory quarters...
...Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average sank for the fourth straight week. A 26-point loss reduced the average to 925, wiping out all its gains since mid-September. From its early December peak, the Dow has slipped 60 points, or 6%. Brokers generally see little on the economic horizon to provide much cheer...
...original unearthly aura, a weird kind of radiant half-light that Ryder thought of as "golden luminosity." It floods across the two foreground figures in Christ Appearing to Mary, painted about 1885. It pulses in the background of The Flying Dutchman, which shows the phantom ship gliding across the horizon behind an open boat manned by three storm-tossed mariners. As Ryder remarked: "What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" In this painting, the storm is undeniably there...