Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other commodities, reports that for the first time in five years, diamonds and Oriental carpets failed to increase in value during the twelve months ending June 1. At the same time, U.S. coins actually lost 8% of their value. One of the best investments during that period was prosaic common stocks, which increased in value by 25.3%. That was faster than rare books and U.S. stamps (both rose by 18%) or paintings by old masters (up 23%). Only Chinese ceramics, which increased in value by 36.5%, proved to be better investments than stocks. Jim Powell, the editor of a newsletter...
...young scholarsof the 1950s, life in Cambridge was a fertile, and secure, world of its own. Coming from the rather prosaic and unstimulating setting of high schools and prep schools from across the country, students at Harvard faced a bewildering choice of pursuits to occupy their time, from academics to drama to athletics...
...fateful day in Dallas in 1963, journalists covering the President have been especially alert to the possibility that someone might try to take his life. That knowledge has brought a tinge of apprehension to even the most routine presidential assignments. TIME'S Dirck Halstead had just such a prosaic task last week: taking pictures of President Reagan at the Washington Hilton. Suddenly gunshots rang out. Halstead, who photographed one of the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford in 1975, was able to take some of the dramatic pictures that accompany this week's cover stories. Says Halstead...
Although computer buffs dream of the day when home computers will print movie tickets or order the groceries, such applications are still uncommon. The vast majority of personal computers are being bought by small businessmen, doctors and lawyers, who use them for prosaic things like record keeping, billing and checking inventories...
...vote funds for expensive new weaponry that provides jobs for key defense industries back home, rather than put the same money into something as mundane-but vital-as maintenance. It has also proved easier to get funds for designing ever more sophisticated weapons than to increase the supply of prosaic ones...