Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman John Riccardo had previously renegotiated a $567.5 million revolving credit agreement with the banks, sold off most of the company's foreign operations and raised $250 million from a public offering of preferred stock. Now there is little left to sell, and Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded the company's credit rating in April...
...hustles to his typewriter and strums a slightly self-pitying ode to his own death by vegetable. In this column, he imagines an Associated Press report ?POTATO MASHES MAN?and broods about his friends saying "Poor devil, he never knew what hit him." "What did hit him?" "Haven't you heard?" Baker's high-wire act has never been snappier. He finishes typing and thinks about making himself a drink. ? John Skew...
...Poor Grandfather...
...show stars Liv Ullmann, the music is Richard Rodgers' 40th Broadway score, and Producer Alexander Cohen raised $1.5 million to put it on. Based on the 1944 Broadway hit by John van Druten, Mama recounts the struggles of the Hansons, who are poor Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco. The play is intentionally sentimental, a celebration of family life. When the new production opened in Philadelphia in March, critics panned it. Too episodic, with a weak story line, they complained...
...Hayakawa, California Senator (who earlier had maintained that the poor do not require gasoline because they are not working), at Pepperdine: "Who are these people waiting in the long lines at the gas stations? Well, virtually all of them are people who need gas to get to work, and they need to work in order to pay their taxes so that the poor will be supported...