Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major difference," says local Attorney Richard Cohen. "The title of the town will change hands, and the homeowners will end up paying the same kind of 'rent' that they pay now under the name of taxes. What we'll end up with is a pretty prosaic town, run by Indians...
...clinic will offer a two-pronged (bivalent) vaccine to elderly and chronically ill patients later this month, a shot that should protect against both swine flu and the more prosaic Victoria-A. About two weeks later doctors at UHS will recommend that the rest of us line up for our shots--bivalent, if there's any left, or else monovalent (swine flu only). The clinic's policy of recommending the vaccine to everyone over 18 is in line with federal policy...
...cult-of-the-sun phase, which succeeded his Wilde/Huysmans phase, Crosby traveled to Egypt, Constantinople, Beirut and other suitably exotic places. The trip was not a success; "As a worshipper of the sun, he was handicapped by an aversion to heat and to southern parts." Something of his prosaic Boston background apparently survived in Crosby despite his flamboyant efforts to thumb his nose at his heritage...
Carl Smart works in a furniture factory and "Stick" Elliott sells junk, but if their callings are prosaic, the men are not. They are fast rollers in the grand Southern tradition of dirt track racing: small-town versions of Rapid Roy. Up to 3,500 fans will converge on the Concord Speedway 15 miles northeast of Charlotte, N.C., on a balmy Saturday evening to watch these two "pedal-to-the-metal" drivers bump fenders as they scream around the track in their blazing fast, gloriously battered stock cars. Stick and Carl are masters of the "power slide," a dirt racing...
Through the mid-1960s, the job of heading the New York Stock Exchange was prosaic and long lasting. G. Keith Funston ran the Big Board for 16 years, from 1951 to 1967. But as reforms began eroding the "private club" nature of the largest and most important U.S. securities market, the boss's job has turned into a shaky one. Robert W. Haack, now chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., was squeezed out after five years. Last week the climate of change proved too much for another Big Board chief. James J. Needham, chairman since 1972, resigned under pressure with...