Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Restic, a poor game by the Crimson defense helped even more. "We just didn't play defense with the intensity we showed in the first few games of the season, especially in the first half. We're talking about them taking it to our unit which we thought was our strength...
...Under Secretary, "with a comforting tone of confidence in his voice, said that the dollar looked promising, but gold, well, that one was nearing extinction." Thus, says Blaylock, "even this nation's newest commander of monetary policy has had his ego bruised by the dollar's poor performance...
Jesus preached a radical way of life that cares for the poor and oppressed, and he accepted the suffering visited upon him by those who could not bear his message. It takes far more courage to love people as Jesus did than to run the quasireligious money mill that Falwell does...
...foreign debt. National City Bank judged that Peru had a "bad debt record, adverse moral and political risk, bad internal debt situation"-and then lent the country $90 million that was soon defaulted. Wall Street banks today have $48.7 billion in loans outstanding to Peru and other oil-poor developing countries. Consumers in the '20s had just discovered the installment plan and were plunging into debt to buy radios, refrigerators and that new Model A from Henry Ford. Their grandchildren now have "plastic money" in the form of credit cards and owe $292.5 billion. The '20s real estate...
...that would permit telephone messages to be sent over telegraph lines, and was astonished to discover that the apparatus could record his own voice. Partly because the phonograph came so easily, he distrusted it enough to fail to capitalize on its moneymaking potential. (Another reason was that he had poor hearing and no real appreciation of music, and did not realize what a bonanza could be reaped by recording melodies...