Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about linesmen long enough to trounce Ken Rosewall 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 at the Avis Challenge Cup competition in Hawaii-a $10,000 victory that made him the fourth professional to win more than $1 million on the tennis tour (the others: Arthur Ashe, Rod Lover and Rose-wall). "I never count how much I make, only how much I spend," commented Nastase, who keeps a fancy flat and a Lancia and a Bentley in Brussels. Do his Communist countrymen ever fret over his capitalistic success? Says he: "Everyone is jealous if you have a lot of money...
West Germany's auto industry, after two years of flagging sales and profits, is racing out of the valley of despair like a supercharged Porsche showing its paces in an Alpine rally. Output rose 47% in January from a year earlier, and many executives view 1976 with something akin to euphoria. Predicts Robert A. Lutz, head of German Ford: "It will be a fantastic year...
...small, economical cars, while wealthy drivers will continue to buy expensive quality autos. But the market is less buoyant for medium-sized, medium-priced autos. That, in part, explains how Daimler-Benz and BMW managed to steer through the recession with barely a falter. Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars rose from 331,682 in 1973 to 350,098 in 1975. Buoyed by that performance as well as by rising truck and bus production (229,-303, up 11.7% from 1974), Daimler-Benz is now Europe's largest automotive manufacturer, with sales of $8.1 billion in 1975, compared with...
...several things have come along to smash that old conception--Kissinger for one. When he rose to power, after he became the long-distance thesis champ at Harvard, the word went out, at least in the social sciences: more is better. So, as an indirect result of his compulsion, seniors now often pick a length and try to fill it rather than pick an argument and write to an appropriate length. A trained scholar would, of course, recognize this approach as bogus for the purposes of good writing, although a goodly number of them seem intent on doing it themselves...
...other hand rose the specter of a permanently tight job market for liberal arts majors. The traditional sources of jobs--the ministry, government service, or professional training--are all trouble spots these days for a lot of people. After teaching its students rationalism and skepticism for four years. Harvard can hardly expect its graduates to look favorably on the ministry. For other reasons, all kinds of undergraduates look on government service as some kind of bad joke, leaving only professionalism from among the traditional callings. Law school, to be sure, seems to be gaining ground, but graduate school...