Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Margaret gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl?an instant family that her friends cite as the ultimate in efficiency. Mark went to Harrow and is now the representative of an Australia-based freight company. His sister Carol studied law at London University and has been working in Australia as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. She returned to London in time for the last weeks of the campaign...
...concentration in the second inning, walking three straight batters before serving up a juicy outside fastball to weak-hitting second baseman Chuck Mitchell. Mitchell launched an arching parabola to deep right field that a sympathetic gust of wind carried over the fence for a home run and an instant four-run lead...
...rage, impish in mischief, grave in contemplation and stinging in pain. Few Broadway debuts are so auspiciously marked on the dateless calendar of brilliance. It is a measure of Conti "s achievement that we cheer his victory unto death and mourn the loss of the man in the same instant...
More important, there is the enriching of his own character to consider in evaluating Manhattan. The basic Woody persona has always been a well-loved figure, a projection of the modern urban Everyman's privately held fantasies and terrors. Manhattan challenges that sense of instant identification, and makes clear just how much fictionalization Woody has practiced on himself...
...addition, Americans are using many sources of credit over which the Federal Reserve has little direct control. Sears, Roebuck and other retail chains are pushing instant credit, as are finance companies, credit unions and similar "near banks." Moreover, bank depositors can lay their hands on credit and cash around the clock by sticking plastic cards into street-corner automated teller machines. Says Finn Caspersen, chairman of Beneficial Corp., which charges up to 20% interest on personal loans: "The consumer is borrowing today's dollar to get today's goods and is paying back with tomorrow's inflated dollars...