Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though President Nixon quickly made clear that he abhors controls and none are on the way, Kennedy's casual remark accelerated the stock market's decline. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 34 points during the week. It closed at 852, even lower than it was at the end of 1965, and down 12% from the year's high of 969. The slide wiped out $60 billion worth of equity. Some indexes of speculative stocks have plummeted as much...
...glass, kept the household account book and slipped a hair between the pages so she would know if the President tried to peek. She thriftily bought the presidential shirts, socks and underwear at the Bon Marché, a sort of Parisian Macy's, and once was heard to remark: "You're running France. I'm running the house." Be that as it may, veteran Elysee watchers recall that Charles had his innings on at least one occasion. At a recent state banquet, De Gaulle heard Yvonne venture an opinion on a political subject and snapped: "What...
...Finch was at home relaxing when the phone rang. It was a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, who asked him what he would do if Knowles was rejected by Nixon. "He'd have to find another Secretary," Finch was quoted as saying. (He subsequently denied making the remark; still later he admitted having said it, but insisted that he had not really meant it as a serious statement...
...journalism. Carried by 186 newspapers, his column reached 12 million readers, who reacted with anger or admiration or a blend of both. When he died last week in Tucson at the age of 74, Pegler had long been in eclipse. Only a handful of newspapers bothered to remark editorially on his passing-the ultimate slight to a journalist whose caustic style enlivened his times...
...here tonight to state as a matter of public policy that the housing crisis is not simply an unfortunate but predictable result of 'the law of supply and demand" or "an economic fact of life." We cannot be satisfied merely to remark that the lack of adequate housing at reasonable prices is a natural consequence of the fact that more people want to live in Cambridge than the number of units available can absorb. New construction to expand the supply of housing is a need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here...