Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became an easy target for its natural political foes. Next week Metro's citizens will vote on a charter amendment designed to cripple Metro for good.* Outlook for Metro...
...Modern Outlook. "Almost every anecdote concerning her is an encounter," says Author Kronenberger, and Marlbo-rough's Duchess is so rich in anecdotes that it becomes a series of unforgettable encounters. There are anecdotes in the grand manner-such as old Sarah marching into the law courts to forbid the sale of one of the Duke's presentation swords, crying: "Shall I suffer the sword which my lord would have carried to the gates of Paris to be sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes...
...great biography of Marlborough, Winston Churchill spoke of Sarah's "detached, disdainful, modern outlook upon life"; she resembled, he said, the sort of woman busy "in the public and social agitations of our own day." Author Kronenberger seems to agree with that view. "She was not at all, by happy standards, a great woman," he concludes, but she was forever so "inextinguishably herself" that she "persists even now." Moreover, she was like a great landmark in England's history-the last example of a nation that was changing "from a society of thieves to a nation of shopkeepers...
...Dixie's joe-college stuff; you find it in your state universities, or maybe at Brown, but it's out of place here." In the opinion of most observers Steve Kuhn, more than any other force, has caused this change to a modern jazz approach from the neo-dixie outlook...
...World Bank's need for new capital is not pressing, despite the fact that last year's $710,800,000 in loans to 20 nations is almost double its previous record year, and the long-range outlook is for a continued increase in loans. By voting an increase in the bank's authorized capital and by raising quotas (50% is the suggested figure) to provide it, the governors would help the sale of World Bank bonds on the world's markets. The bank now has capital of $9.4 billion, but bankers feel that its bonds...