Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main reason for the price hike was clear. OPEC wanted to regain the purchasing power it had lost because of the dollar's decline, 28% since December 1976. Despite huge oil revenues, eight of the OPEC member nations ran deficits in the first half of 1978; as a group, they became the biggest international borrowers, with a total of $5.2 billion in loans and withdrawals. Surprisingly, many American businessmen do not blame OPEC for raising the price as much as it did. "If you take an 18-month time period," says Carlton Jones, manager of energy analysis at Pace...
Sommers estimates that there are at least 3 million displaced homemakers, though nobody knows for sure. For practical purposes, a displaced homemaker is a person from 35 to 64, overwhelmingly likely to be a woman, who has been caring for family members and has lost the means of support through divorce, separation, death or some other calamity like the disabling of a spouse. She either has not held a job for a long time or has never worked outside the home...
From Gandhi's point of view, that probably was just as well: her chances of recapturing the prime ministership she lost in 1977 might be enhanced by her being in jail. During the debate over how to punish her for ordering the arrest in 1975 of four officials assigned to investigate the tangled business affairs of her son Sanjay, 32, she sought to provoke Desai's Janata Party into rashly locking her up. By so doing, the Times of India editorialized last week, she would gain "concrete evidence that when it comes to dealing with political opponents, Janata...
...generously praises her friends, is discreet about most of her enemies and as demure as a schoolgirl about herself. One is never sure if her virginity was lost or simply faded slowly like the Cheshire cat. Still, the lady knows how to settle a score. On being romanced and jilted by Frank Sinatra after Bogart's death in 1957: "Actually, Frank did me a great favor-he saved me from the disaster our marriage would have been. The truth is he was probably smarter than I: he knew it couldn't work. But the truth also is that...
...disdaining society to pursue existence as narcissistic massage buffs, om-sayers, encounter groupies and peacocks. The type is to be found, true, but the number seems very small. A thousand times as many Americans are to be found at any time -around hospitals, churches, offices, schools, neighborhoods -all as lost as ever in the volunteerism that has been a striking phenomenon of the national character since Tocqueville came meandering about. Thank God he did not get his information from the crowd at Elaine...