Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main threat to U.S. sea lanes would come from the Soviet submarine fleet, which is 25% larger than World War II's Nazi U-boat force. To combat the Soviet subs, the U.S. has devised a complicated strategy involving...
...surge has been fueled by the accelerated foreign buying. One New York banker remarks: "Overseas buying early last week was a wave not to be believed." The main interest is coming from West Germany, where institutions and private investors have been seeking a double killing on low Wall Street prices and the cheap U.S. dollar. Merrill Lynch reports doing good business for private Arab investors from Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Britain's Prudential Assurance Co. has been a buyer in the U.S. market...
When the plan was first announced last January, Sun Life blamed the Quebec government's determination to make French the official language of business; beginning July 1, even display advertising will have to be in French. Later, managers admitted that their main desire was to improve business prospects. Said President Thomas Gait: "The uncertainty that has arisen as a result of the policies of the current Quebec government to some degree has undermined confidence...
...older building (522,500 sq. ft.). The new structure may be the most expensive public building to have been erected in America. Most of the $95 million that went into it came from one man, Paul Mellon−and the foundation he controls. The funds to construct the main block of the National Gallery were furnished 40 years ago by his father Andrew Mellon...
...main things money provides is privacy," Paul says, and everyone talks, as Bunny does, of his imperial remoteness. "The people who are fond of Paul are much fonder of him than he is of them," says one of his closest friends sadly. A poem he wrote 50 years ago in the Yale Lit offers perhaps the best clue to his character...