Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Increases in liquor consumption, compared with levels of a generation ago, have been reported in a number of surveys...
...evaluate his music. But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come. It also reflects their recovery of a number of Webern manuscripts-characteristically neat, finely etched documents in which individual notes range over the staves with a kind of surreal wit, as in some calligraphic drawing by Paul Klee...
...idea of investing in this money market is hardly new, but the minimum stakes are so hefty that trading used to be done only by rich people, corporations and institutions looking to park their idle cash. This discrimination has been ended by the swelling number of money funds that have been formed by mutual fund companies and brokerage firms to pool small investors' assets. Since the returns rise along with surging interest rates-and the highest bank prime lending rate rose to 15¼% last week-money market funds are booming. About 75 such funds now handle nearly...
Fighting a rearguard action against the money funds, many bankers trumpet that their deposits are guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and that money market funds are riskier. There is a slight risk, but since the funds are put largely into top bank and corporate securities, a number of banks and cor porations would have to go broke before the typical money market investor would suffer much loss. He would not even lose, but his yields would go down, if interest rates declined. If they dropped far enough, he might have been wiser to invest in a long-term...
...Faulkner's short stories were available in book form. Editor Joseph Blotner has rounded up 45 more, 14 of them previously unpublished anywhere. The book as a whole rarely reaches the brilliance sustained throughout Faulkner's Collected Stories (1950). No matter. Blotner has salvaged a number of fine stories from back-issue oblivion and, in the process, presented an intriguing portrait of the artist as a commercial traveler...