Word: rushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bladettes, a group of Business School students, wives, and staff, moved the puck well but were unable to defense the rush of the Ms. Sticks. Karen Tangen, a second-year student, scored both Harvard's goals...
...called Horticulturalist Peter Dunlop wailing that there was a pink snake in her plant. Dunlop, incredulous, asked how long it was, three feet, two, one? It turned out to be an inchworm. Another New York housewife recently expended the last half-gallon of gas in the family car to rush her ailing plant to the nearest cactus clinic. "It's stopped growing," she cried, "and the leaves keep falling off. I've tried everything, from Mozart to peat moss. What am I doing wrong'" Replied the resident physician: "Nothing, madam, it's a plastic plant...
...rush to surgery, Russek feels, is self-destructive; good medical treatment is now available that can control the causes of angina and the crippling heart attacks that often follow. Russek treated one series of 102 patients suffering from severe angina for six years with a special combination of drugs: propranolol (Inderal), a drug that slows down the heart and reduces its need for oxygen, and long-acting nitrates that dilate the blood vessels and increase blood flow to the heart muscle. Only 1.2% of Russek's coronary patients died each year-about the same mortality rate from heart attacks...
...gold rush is paradoxical for two reasons. Gold price leaps used to reflect primarily doubts about the worth of the dollar-but the dollar's price in foreign currencies has generally been climbing for the past several months. Also, the values of most major currencies are no longer formally tied to gold. But now investors are disturbed by forecasts that inflation will average close to 9% in the U.S. this year, 10% to 15% in Europe, as much as 20% in Japan. That means that paper currencies will buy steadily fewer goods and services, no matter what the price...
Even American citizens are joining the rush. They cannot yet legally buy gold bars, but they have always been permitted to own gold coins. Sales of British sovereigns, Mexican 50-peso coins and good old double eagles (U.S. $20 gold pieces) are booming. In the past two weeks alone, double eagles traded in New York have gone from $200 apiece to nearly...