Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost always effective, and generally the choice of the winning faction is the best available site. Once in a while, however, the demo cratic process fails an unlucky colony. In one tragic case, the factions debated for 14 days and reached no decision. At last the swarm built its nest in the open, and perished during the winter...
...himself with personal debts "approaching" $700,000, and went to work for the family business. Within two months Gerard Lambert was the company's general manager, "although I still had no office." Within seven years he had paid off all his debts and changed Listerine from a family nest egg into a national institution...
Efficient Killer. Prometheus, Dart concludes, must have been a prodigious hunter, because around his bones are scattered fragments of the antelope, giraffe, buffalo, rhinoceros and hippopotamus. He also fished the streams for water turtles and robbed the nest of the shrike. Giant rodent moles, wart hogs and porcupines were staples of his diet. No creature except modern man has ever been such an efficient killer, says Dr. Dart...
...spent his nest egg as down payment on a rooming house, which he remodeled in his spare time and soon had filled with students. With the profit he made, he bought 47 acres of land, cut them up into three plots, sold them individually. Having made more money on the first two lots than he paid for the entire 47 acres, he bought himself another thriving rooming house. Finally he traded his first house for a third, making a profit on the deal...
...Treasury announced a 195,5 surplus of 676 million pesos (about $55 million), the largest in Mexico's history. The nest egg was piled up mainly by a 37% increase in government income-comfortably ahead of the 30% rise in government spending...