Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out that way. Exports rose only $93 million from July through October, and Britain's gold and foreign currency reserves went up only $64 million last month. Meanwhile, the production index in October fell 3%, worst plunge in four years. Capital investment is declining, primarily because businessmen lack confidence in the economic future. Even Wilson's best friends have begun to tell him off. Last week the Socialist-leaning New Statesman called his deflationary policy "the most reactionary kind of bankers' philosophy," and asked rhetorically: "How long can we afford Harold Wilson...
...trouble was-and is-that Arkansans have lived too long behind self-constructed walls of complacency, mediocrity and provincialism. Well into the 1950s, the state ranked at or near the bottom of virtually every index of progress, from literacy to average income to the number of dentists per capita. Though the legislature in the '20s dubbed Arkansas the "Wonder State" and later more modestly renamed it the "Land of Opportunity," by the early '40s the brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed...
Most recently, Grove Press has published A Secret Life, a book by an anonymous Victorian who led a lurid life. Although the book's contents might easily be judged obscene (the index alone is enough to shock most of us) it will probably not be brought to court...
...speaks English well, but with a thick Russian accent. He smokes a great deal (a habit he acquired at 15 when jailed for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda), holding his cigarettes in the European manner -- between thumb and index finger with palm toward the mouth...
...press, and at even greater length about what those positions really were, the charm of this book lies in Buckley's unfailing awareness of the absurdities of campaign rhetoric and rigmarole. He recalls that during televised debates, Lindsay carefully arranged in front of him vast numbers of index cards "on which were graven in Magic Marker salient points or statistics." Admits Buckley: "I had a mad impulse, one time when he went off to pose for a picture, to scramble the cards around, or maybe doctor the statistics just a little, horrible bit." Buckley also recalls envying candidates...