Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month as a consultant to Saigon's Ministry of Finance, helping set up the country's first securities market. Munroe, who was once a broker in Beverly Hills, is convinced that overseas investment in Viet Nam is about to take off. "By 1975, there should be a rush to invest," he says, "in everything from rice, fruit and fish to rubber, timber, molybdenum and oil. There are tremendous long-range business opportunities. It's like frontier California; there's a great potential for growth...
...earnestly spiritual, caught up in a renewed interest in prayer. "We are going back to the Spiritual Exercises in a huge rush," he says. "They go around quoting from this little black book. They are consciously and deliberately spending more time in personal prayer." One quip going around: "Any day now, somebody's going to invent the rosary...
...their extra dollars. They are now banking less than 7% of their after-tax income−compared with more than 8% two years ago. Sales are especially strong for jewelry, high fashion, big foreign cars and other costly luxury items. Foley's department store in Houston reports a rush on $250 electronic watches. "People have a hell of a lot of money and they are spending it for big-ticket items," says Harold Spurway, president of Carson Pirie Scott, a Chicago-based department store chain...
...problem with Rush is to separate the showman, the man on the pink album covers, from the songs he sings and the way he sings them. The fact is that he sang good songs and sang them well on Friday. His renditions of "Urge for Going" and "Dear Abby" -- a song "loaded with social significance," said Rush -- were very good. Particularly effective, because Rush seemed to have his heart in them, were "Rockport Sunday," an instrumental inspired by the sounds of the North Shore, and "Child's Song," a sad tune about a young man leaving home...
Unlike Pete Seeger, Harvard drop-out with social conscience, Rush, Harvard graduate with Urge for Going, wanted to make it. He didn't want to play in little bars all his life. Like many folk musicians who came out of the folk boom of the sixties, he was torn between the folk art -- which except in times of boom doesn't sell -- and some kind of popular success. He chose the latter, although he did some good singing in the process...