Word: potash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestible. It's not just that we cry at the ends of movies, and wonder what Dirty Harry will do now that he'd tossed his badge after Scorpio face down outside a potash mine. We'll believe circles that don't meet end to end. In the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT they can't figure out why we recognize a letter in almost anyone's handwriting, or why we abstract a smile-face as a face at all. Nobody knows why we believe animation.Kathy Rose [left] addresses one of her rebellious characters in 'Pencil Bookings...
Wednesday, November 1: Music at Midday--Music of the Baroque, with Charles Caldwell, recorder; Robert Hill, harpsichord; Elli Potash, viola da gamba. Bach, Hotteterre and Gimna. Jewett Arts Center...
...link with Marcor, probably will be held back both by political opposition and by :he feeling of most oil managements that they should stick to fields in which petroleum expertise is useful. One solution would be to sink money into development of all kinds of natural resources: potash, salt, sulfur, phosphates. Another would 5e simply to distribute more cash to stockholders. In any case, it is a problem many other industries wish they could foresee...
...stayed at his tailor shop all night long, grasping a gun, his German shepherd at his heels. A gang of men began to menace him. He cried out: "If you shoot me, my dog will get you!" They closed in relentlessly. Blye shouted again: "I got ten cans of potash upstairs! I'm goin' upstairs now! I blind you, you come up the stairs after me! I blind you!" The crowd left him alone...
...Canadian crude is running nearly $1.50 above average world market prices. Porter also pointed out that American investors had become leary of putting more money into Canada because of worries about rising nationalism. As an example, he cited the decision of the Saskatchewan provincial government to take over the potash industry, much of which is owned by subsidiaries of American firms. In response to reporters' questions, he also noted that relations had not been helped by a new tax bill that, once enacted, would force both TIME and the Reader's Digest to stop publishing separate Canadian editions...