Word: plums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pyongyang is a mecca for every true son and daughter of the new socialist Korea, and red, appropriately, seems to be the city's favorite color. There is red in the paint freshly applied to the showcase capital, as well as in the cherry and plum trees that fill the parks and line the streets. "Oh, our Pyongyang," sings the chorus in one revolutionary opera. "Beautiful is the red socialist capital. With boundless joy we have come to the Pyongyang we have always longed for. Our leader is here in the revolutionary capital, which is the fountainhead...
...history of Western art. It had no real parallel among American painters: one needs to go to Matisse or Bonnard to find anything like its expressive scope and patient single-mindedness. Then came the forays into an increasing darkness, the mute theatricality of his penultimate paintings, the wide blackish-plum surfaces that scarcely "breathe" at all, and the dull, fiddling solipsism of the last works...
...gain by Evers's presence in the Senate race. Evers could draw enough votes away from Dantin to ruin Dantin's chances while still failing himself. This would hand the Senate spot to Cochran, who would then become the first Republican since Reconstruction to hold such a powerful political plum in Mississippi. Cochran resembles Dantin in many ways. Ideologically, the two are identical. Cochran, however, is the special pride and joy of Mississippi's powerful Country Club Set--a class of wealthy planters and businessmen who can usually fork out enough money to catapult their candidate to the top. Cochran...
What troubles Abboud now is that U.S. capitalism is not getting enough new capital. "There is a tremendous disinvestment in the economy," he says. The number of shareholders has shrunk so drastically that Wall Street's plum has become a prune. Americans are spending instead of investing, figuring as do Latin Americans that it is better to buy now because the price of everything is going to be higher tomorrow. "In consequence," adds Abboud, "big firms like A T & T can get capital, but small companies have a hard time. So the basic job-producing engine is drying...
...work for Kinder-Care at the federal minimum of $2.65 an hour. Forty percent of Mendel's 2.300 day-care employees are former teachers; many of the rest are housewives in need of extra cash. Center directors receive only $11,000 a year, but Mendel offers them a plum: their kids can attend free...