Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital by purchasing the Seeburg line of slot machines and Atlantic City's famed Steel Pier. The shares of two other firms that plan to open casinos in Atlantic City are also rising fast: Bally Manufacturing Co., which makes slot and pinball machines, from a low earlier this year of $15 to $38 last week, and Caesars World, from a low of $6 earlier this year to $25 last week. Says Wall Street Analyst Anthony Hoffman: "Americans will gamble wherever they can. Why is just $75 billion bet in the country each year? Only because there aren...
...Peking leadership's low threshold of irritability has also caused China's once close relations with Viet Nam to deteriorate into what one analyst called "China's worst foreign policy disaster since the Cultural Revolution cut the country off from the rest of the world." Ostensibly, the quarrel focuses on two issues: China's support for Viet Nam's inimical neighbor, Cambodia, and the fate of 1.2 million ethnic Chinese in Viet Nam. Peking accuses Hanoi of subjecting them to "persecution and ostracism." While Hanoi denies the charge, 159,000 refugees have crossed the border...
...pair of sluggish old fishing boats were placidly trawling off the southern shore of Thailand on a moonlit night. Suddenly the fishermen spotted two dark silhouettes clipping toward them across the water. Skipper Kimheng Phonsawat, 47, did not wait to identify them. Crouching low over his wheel, he instantly directed both his boats to slash their nets and make for nearby Ko Kut Island at full throttle. "I could tell by the sound that the other boats had 300-h.p. engines," he recalled. "As one of them pulled alongside, we came under rifle fire." Three of Kimheng's crew...
Canada's Trudeau vowed to achieve a 5% growth rate for his nation, but almost no one in Canada took him seriously. At present Canada's growth rate is so low (2.8%), inflation so high (9%) and unemployment so troublesome (8.6%) that Trudeau, with a current budget deficit of $11.5 billion, is boxed in from taking any strong economic initiatives...
...THIS POINT, any money The Crimson receives from the Summer School is in the form of fees paid for services such as advertising or subscriptions. To infer from this relationship that The Crimson is obliged to provide students with staff positions for reasons other than perceived ability--as some low-level administrators in the school have maintained in the past--is a truly puzzling exercise in deduction...