Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat recalled a book about Abraham Lincoln that he had read as a boy. "Lincoln was a villager, too," he said, "and he moved alone." Sadat became excited about the comparison as he talked about Lincoln's humble beginnings. His deep voice increased in strength as the actor rose to the part. "To this day," he said, "I still remember a movie I saw about Lincoln. The last scene showed him getting on the train alone to go to Washington. He put a black shawl over his shoulders-just the way our villagers do." He dropped his voice...
...takeovers have spiced an otherwise dreary stock market. Marshall Field stock last week rose from $22.75 to $29.25 a share, still short of C.H.H.'s offer of $36. National Starch shares jumped more than 20 points in a single day and closed at $65.50; even those who bought at that price will profit by selling to Unilever at $73.50. That situation points up the big gest reason for the takeover trend: prices of many stocks have sunk so low that a cash-rich company can offer a tempting premium and still pick up corporate as sets for less money...
Bokassa, like Napoleon, rose to power through the French army. Son of a tribal chief in what was then the French colony of Ubangi-Shari...
...owns "radio's most distinctive adenoids," as Mike Royko puts it, broke into journalism as a copy boy for the old evening American (it died in 1974 as Chicago Today) and rose to become political editor before working in Washington for Hearst and Newsweek. He was a regular panelist on CBS's Face the Nation for nearly five years, then returned to his home town. After becoming WBBM-TV news director, he switched to the network's AM radio outlet in 1968. Snide and thunderous on the air, Madigan at home in his lakefront high-rise...
...that matter. The officially reported rate in recent months has been lower-3.7% in October-but that was an illusory result of a temporary lull in food prices. The respite is now ending; in November wholesale prices, which often foreshadow what will happen to living costs, rose at an annual rate...