Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost the equivalent of a squadron - 20 Phantoms. One crew out of seven can expect to be shot down during its tour of duty, for recon missions, unlike the swift, darting thrusts of fighter-bomber strikes, often require four to five minutes of straight and level cruising at low altitude...
NARROW is the horizon in Ward 6, Surgical. It is a drab room, twice as long as it is wide, divided down the center by a low partition. Two rows of steel beds run like exposed ribs down each side. At one end is the businesslike nurses' station, a bookcase with a collection of old magazines and paperbacks, a too-loud TV set. There are no flowers, no pictures, no decorations. There are windows all around, but no one bothers to look...
...owner of Nevada's Harrah's gambling clubs and the world's largest antique-auto collection (1,300 cars). Harrah kept his bids modest, acquired only four autos. "Exotic, glamorous cars are going for very high prices," Harrah noted, "run-of-the-mill stuff for very low...
...ears and featureless silver masks." There is a do-it-yourself poem in which the author provides the ingredients (adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, gerunds, capitalized words, etc.) and leaves the composition to the reader. There is a recording of percussion instruments with the sensible instructions that it be played so low "you almost don't hear...
Special Taxes. Whatever they finally get, the cost will certainly aggravate French industry's already tight profit squeeze. The workers were largely justified in their demands, since their wages lag behind those in every other Common Market country except Italy. But despite its relatively low payrolls, French industry, plagued by inefficiencies in production and distribution, has yielded slender profit margins. State-owned Renault, for example, earns less than a 1% return on sales, compared with 5% for West Germany's Volkswagen. Compagnie Francaise des Petroles works on a 4.5% profit margin v. 8.6% for Royal Dutch/Shell...