Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delmonico's, Wall Street's favorite restaurant, is crowded again and, despite the chill of midwinter, the speculative sap is rising in Manhattan's brokerage community. Last week the Dow-Jones average climbed for the fourth straight week, closing at 888.83, the highest in 20 months; on one day, trading volume on the New York Exchange set a new record: 28,250,000 shares. One single trade of 3,248,000 shares of Allis-Chalmers, the largest in history, exceeded the average daily volume of the Big Board eleven years...
...Hazen's and God know's where Else's are ecologically unsound. Think, if you can for this moment of the vibrant trees thrusting themselves towards the sun from the earth. yearning to breathe free like you or me, that must be cut down in the full sap of their youth to wrap a roast beef special...
...tide of parental and congressional revulsion from violence. By that time, broadcasters had evolved a highly sensible plan. If "adult" evening programming was immature, why not allow it to rerun during the children's hours, where it might meet its intellectual level? Thus the Flintstones' "Pa's a Sap" approach now runs every day. Bewitched is a daily staple; so are The Beverly Hillbillies and F Troop. Today the rerun is no longer a method of picking up the small change; it is programmed into children's video. An animated segment costs the networks about $60,000. The cost...
...splinter groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command, are more rabidly Maoist than Habash is; both have seats on Arafat's central committee. They and similar splinters badly disrupt the coordination of the group and sap the effectiveness of the guerrilla movement...
This plan would leave the government of Lon Nol with roughly half the country to defend, including the fish-and rice-producing region around the Tonle Sap and the Angkor area. The regions given over to the Communists would include the northeast, where they already dominate, the eastern border regions and the rugged Cardamom Mountains in the southwest...