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...prasada, or food, is sanctified by Krishna and brought into the temple in large, white buckets. The devotees top over the vats and ladle the food onto peoples' plates. The paper plates sag under an awesome spectrum of stewed, spiced, fried, mashed, sweetened or rolled vegetables. A smiling baby lies between its parents, who sit cross-legged, eating peacefully. A little boy with a short pony tail and white robe, a Hare Krishna miniature, collects donations with a wicker basket, directed around the temple by his mother...
Nobel lived during the latter half of the 19th century, when industrialized Europe saw its steel industry sag because of overdevelopment and a lack of new markets. In search of new, lucrative fields, the steel and iron companies, the dominant industries in this era of unusually heavy industry, turned to armaments: large bore cannons, machine guns, steel-plated ships and a wide assortment of modernized rifles...
Stock market's sag caps a dozen years of declining clout...
...aberration? Hardly. Though economic recovery is continuing, stock prices have been sinking all year; the Dow is now more than 14% lower than it was on New Year's Eve. And the 1977 sag only climaxes a decade of disappointment. Indeed, the stock market, once a great driving force and sensitive indicator of the U.S. economy, has been steadily losing its vigor, and its hold on investors' minds, for most of the past dozen years...
...corporate activity that the stock market's sag has not discouraged is the big takeover. Quite the contrary: partly because share prices are low, the number of multimillion-dollar mergers is rising. W.T. Grimm, a Chicago firm of merger consultants, counts a somewhat lower total number of mergers and acquisitions so far in 1977 than a year ago, but in the first six months of this year it found 20 cases in which a company proposed to pay $100 million or more for control of another firm, as compared with twelve bids of that size in the same...