Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousands last week turned out to greet her. Traveling mostly by auto, Indira went from one dusty village to another in the impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh, campaigned there in the electoral district in which she herself will stand for re-election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Rarely speaking for more than ten minutes, she pleaded for support for the Congress Party. "Do not cut down a tree," she said, "when it is about to bear fruit...
...Congress Party will lose control of three or four states to right-wing alliances and perhaps the state of Kerala to the Communists. The Con gress Party is also expected to lose 80 or so of the 374 seats that it now ho'ds in the 521-member lower house of Parliament. It would still be India's largest party by far, but no longer quite so all-powerful...
...prevents normal circulation of air. Ordinarily, warm air rises from the earth into the colder regions above, carrying much of man's pollution with it. Occasionally, a layer of warmer air forms above cooler air near the ground; the inversion acts as a lid, preventing the pollutants at lower altitudes from rising and dispersing. Inversions are no novelty, but what happened at Donora shocked public-health officials into an awareness that such layers pose a deadly threat to an increasingly industrialized and pollutant-producing society...
...Sitting on the hill of Lycabettus, overlooking the valley of Athens," writes Greek City Planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, "I can see early Monday morning the first dark clouds building in the lower part of the valley, where the industries are. It grows, it covers the middle and lower parts of the city. Gradually it reaches the eastern part, and by expanding in height it covers the rock of the Acropolis and the Parthenon. By then everybody in the city of Athens has had to breathe the polluted...
...that investors who sold short in December for tax purposes now had to cover. Short-interest holdings-including large blocs in Douglas, RCA, Sperry Rand, Fairchild Camera and Gulf & Western-hit a 35-year high in December. The short-interest total began dropping-it was 2,000,000 shares lower at the beginning of last week-as the short sellers began covering themselves in a rising market. Buying also were mutual funds, which had kept about $3 billion liquid and ready during an uncertain autumn and now moved in with some of it to pick up favorites...