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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like all bass players, stands expressionless. You can see all this in The Kids Are Alright; but you miss the music. For some reason, Jeff Stein--who put the movie together--chose a few very good film sequences and mixed them up, without any sense of order, with a lot of trashy ones...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: My Generation, Past Thirty | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...Sure, lady," replies the agent, "we got a lot of $350 apartments. But we're getting $600 for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gimme Shelter! But Where? | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

That could please a lot of people. Says New Hampshire Senator John Durkin: "The performance of DOE has been, at best, abysmal. It calmly presides over shortages, massive increases in profits, and a messed up allocation system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Horrible Conglomeration | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...landlords are using the shortage to vet prospective tenants and refuse those with modest incomes. Finding an apartment requires tramping the streets and often bribing doormen. Reports Norman Kailo, president of the New Jersey Association of Realtors: "Young marrieds are beginning to double up, and there are a lot of illegal conversions of one-family units into two-family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gimme Shelter! But Where? | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...company stands to see a lot more of Geneen, at least until his $1 million-a-year management contract expires in 1981 and he presumably retires for good at 71. No sooner had he dumped Hamilton than he was jetting to Europe where, in the words of one ITT executive, "more heads are expected to roll." Sure enough, at week's end Gerhard Andlinger, president of ITT Europe, "resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Welcome Home, You're Fired | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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