Word: rosier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guitars & Tennis Rackets. Unable to view or even get close to the battlefield itself (unlike Westmoreland, who tours his commands four times a week), Giap must rely on reports from his commanders in the field that he cannot check -which probably leads to a rosier picture of the war than is justified by facts. While Hanoi, thanks to the careful targeting of the U.S. bombers, as a population center is probably safer than any place in South Viet Nam today, its atmosphere is hardly conducive to clearheaded armchair generalship. Bomb shelters are everywhere: at 8-ft. intervals between sidewalks...
...record's rate, a canvas a yard square would cost $34,411,000, more than 15 times the highest price ever recorded for a painting. A Rembrandt etching, called the "Hundred Guilder" print for the healthy sum it brought in the 1640s, brought an even rosier price of $72,800. But the record price for a print was set when a late 15th century engraving by a German master known only as P.M. sold...
...answer has been to combine the innovations he forced into the previously stagnated system with the imaginative efforts of a new, full-time public relations director. The advantage of this solution--assuming it succeeds in creating a rosier image for the school system--is that the city would be better prepared to enter the highly competitive market for teachers. The disadvantage is that the pressure for correcting the school system's deficiencies would be eased by a false sense of security...
...newspapers, the situation was a little rosier. Last year their combined advertising revenue rose 8%, to $4.1 billion, reported Charles T. Lipscombe Jr., president of the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association. And, as was the case with magazines, 1964 newspaper ad revenue topped the record high set the year before...
Long Chance. Such fast moves in the past 40 years have transformed Sam Mosher from a frustrated California farmer into a successful tycoon. Struggling with his first love-raising fruit and flowers-Mosher ruefully decided that prospects might be rosier Southern California's oil fields. With $4,000 borrowed from his mother and a Government instruction booklet to guide him, Mosher in 1922 set up a small plant in Long Beach's Signal Hill oil field to wring a motor fuel ingredient out of the natural gas pumped out by the big oil companies...