Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modest Goal. The governments of South Asia have responded with a host of emergency programs. Pakistani officials are importing $35 million worth of insecticides and spraying equipment from the U.S. Authorities in Sri Lanka are trying to crack down on illegal gem miners, who contribute to the malaria problem by digging pits which then fill with water in which mosquitoes breed...
...movie career almost at an end, Reagan turned to TV in 1954 and became host for the weekly General Electric Theater. He also toured the country as G.E.'s representative, spreading management's good will to employees at each of the company's 135 plants. He soon became a favorite speaker at Republican dinners and rallies and in 1964 was named co-chairman of California Citizens for Barry Goldwater...
...will continue doing business in sewing machines, which turned a profit of $34 million last year. Singer's troubles stem from a massive diversification program undertaken during the 1960s. Under Kircher, Singer acquired a host of companies, including a maker of navigation and guidance systems and a mail-order house. Some of the deals worked out well; others have not-notably a venture into business machines...
...surface, Edith Wharton's life was very different. The society she selected included a host of American and European literary luminaries, who frequented dinner parties at her splendidly appointed homes and accompanied her on sight-seeing jaunts across the Continent. And yet the terrible aloneness of Wharton heroines like The House of Mirth's Lily Bart was their creator's as well; for, like Dickinson, Wharton imagined herself "as gazing out through the bars of a prison at the procession of life...
...disputed by a host of critics who fear that a default could abort the recovery. Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, says that if New York goes under, the shock waves in money markets will drive up borrowing costs for many states and municipalities, forcing them to cut services and spending and hike taxes, and drastically harm the economy. A New York bankruptcy would also wipe out much of the value of $2 billion worth of city securities held by banks round the country. Though the Federal Reserve has pledged to lend the banks enough...