Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move stands to do more to burnish the public relations image of Carter's anti-inflation commandos-and Sears-than to contain overall U.S. prices. First, inflation in general retailing has been relatively modest, averaging well under 5% over the past five years. Second, Sears' major competitors, including J.C. Penney, K mart and Montgomery Ward, do not intend to cut prices...
...patterns, like other sound waves, can be charted by assigning a numerical value to each point on the wave. These numbers are then run through a computer in sequence, and the numerical input is converted into sound by electrical impulses. The tremendous increase in computer memory power during the past decade has enabled technicians to translate such variables as pitch and loudness into numerical values to reproduce a sound exactly...
...count decides to go to New York City in pursuit of Model Cindy Sondheim (Susan Saint James), whom he recognizes from magazine covers as the reincarnation of the one woman he has really loved for some seven centuries. Cindy, alas, is not quite the innocent she was in her past lives. She divides her evenings between the discos and one-night stands, popping uppers and downers as if they were Good & Plenties and generally leading a thoroughly disorganized life. She has been having an affair with her analyst (Richard Benjamin) for years, but both are beset by the modern inability...
...only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know, and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human...
...race was even a bigger test for his unproven jockey, 19-year-old Ronnie Franklin. He came to Churchill Downs a vulnerable boy. He rode past the finish line a triumphant young man, his fist stabbed aloft in celebration...