Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 50 years of cradle-to-grave welfare statism, little Uruguay is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. The country is rich in wheat and beef but hardly rich enough to afford such goodies as 100% pensions at age 55, a 30-hour work week, and 44 days of paid vacation each year for many workers. And so in the past five years the peso has skidded from 9? to 1.6? on the free market (the official rate has been abandoned altogether). Thus far this year, inflation has soared 45% while the foreign debt has grown to a staggering...
Whether Continental's discovery, or British Petroleum's two other finds nearby, will be rich enough for commercial exploitation may take months to determine. The Continental announcement was more than enough, however, to trigger a scramble in oil shares on the London stock exchange last week and heat up the race to get down to the sea in rigs. Of the 23 consortiums that Britain has licensed to explore its area of the North Sea, only five (Continental and British Petroleum, plus Shell-Esso, Signal and the Phillips Group) are actually drilling. Holding up the others: the slowness...
...Bishop Horace Donegan, at a ceremony marking his 15th year as head of the diocese, announced that a parishioner had stricken from his will a pledge of $600,000 toward completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.* Although he named no names, Donegan said that two other rich benefactors were threatening to withdraw bequests much larger than that. The purpose of withholding the money, said Donegan, was to show disapproval of his stand on civil rights-including speeches, sending priests to Selma, installing a Negro canon at the cathedral, and integrating parishes...
Hall's favorite targets are halfbacks John Hutchinson and Bill Carr, who have together snared 72 passes this year. Hall will also roll out and hit his big ends, Rich O'Toole and John Olson, over the middle. Fullback Pete Thorbain and guards Neill Anderson and Bob O'Day effectively clear the way for Hall on his sweeps...
Confusingly, Giulietta's perceptions grow so extravagantly heightened that they blur the line between reality and fantasy, and depolarization occurs. The rich, constantly bedazzling frieze of effects finally becomes an end in itself, resulting in a curiously empty drama. Instead of deepening the character of his heroine as he intends, Fellini overwhelms her, for the thousand-and-one-nights imagery he has flung pell-mell upon the screen seems organic only to his own turbulent imagination. Though Juliet of the Spirits offers bizarre and enticing spectacle, it is transparently a gaudy intellectual shell game that expends awesome amounts...