Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, if anything, do these figures prove? Said Statistician Hammond cautiously: "I would rather not hazard a guess as to the mechanism underlying this association." Neither Hammond nor physicians reviewing his data can be certain which comes first-the arterial disease, or the tendency to sleep longer than average...
...metropolitan areas fell to 4.9% during the first quarter of this year, the lowest level of the decade. The figure runs far lower in many places. One reason is the remarkable proliferation of huge apartment communities loaded with amenities for a leisure age. A swimming pool is no longer enough. In Houston, Developer Jenard Gross' latest 1,250-unit project will also have a shopping center, tennis courts, a gym and sauna baths, along with air-conditioned one-bedroom apartments for $150 a month. Some builders throw in a private cocktail lounge, shuffleboard courts, a putting green or even...
...celebrating what they call a boomchik. Recently, in the midst of the Jews' annual Succoth harvest festival, Finance Minister Ze'ev Sharef officially hailed the end of the three-year economic downturn. "All signs show that we have finally overcome stagnation," he said. "There are no longer any real obstacles to our development...
Andy Warhol? Schrafft's has long conjured up images of little old ladies lunching on wholesome fare served up by apple-cheeked waitresses. Warhol, of course, is strictly pop, having turned out larger-than-life paintings of Campbell soup cans, realer-than-real sculptures of Brillo packages, and longer-than-interminable camp movies. Still, when Schrafft's decided to project a new with-it look, its ad agency, F. William Free & Co., thought that it might be a good idea to take on Warhol, now recovered from having been shot nigh unto death by a man-hating woman...
Slogan writers no longer have to lurk in subway W.C.'s to display their anonymous talent. Now they can show their genius by entering the "Instant Graffiti" contest...