Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outcome was not quite cathartic. Wall Street did save itself, barely, by a series of mergers between shaky brokerage houses that makes a well-told suspense story. But in Brooks' view, "the Street" is being destroyed anyway by technology. "The twin forces that hold Wall Street together as a social unit," he explains, "are the stock certificate, the use of which calls for geographical unity because it must be quickly and easily conveyed from seller to buyer, and the stock-exchange floor, which gives stock trading a visible focal point." Neither is necessary any more; stock trades can easily...
...million people were murdered by the Hitler regime. The Indochina death toll is less exact, but it ranges somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 million. The questions remain, but in a different formulation. For we are the Germans now, and all the Elliot Richardsons we can produce cannot save us from our guilt...
Student opposition came after it became apparent that the MDC plan would destroy the sycamore trees which line Mem Drive. In May 1964, 1000 students took to the streets, blocking traffic on Mem Drive for more than an hour while they shouted "Save the Sycamores...
...pair of tweezers. After a year of testing in Florida, Eller and Haugen now recommend that a 9-in. plastic tweezer-like device called Choke Saver be kept at the ready in every restaurant. It has already been used by a city first-aid unit in Jacksonville, Fla., to save the lives of three victims. Using either his fingers or the Choke Saver, a clumsy amateur may bruise a victim's throat while wrestling with the obstructing clump of food. But, the Florida doctors note, "a sore throat is to be preferred to a dead patient...
...Administration also launched a publicity campaign, featuring a specially drawn Snoopy cartoon, to get consumers to save energy. Key recommendation: all householders should turn their thermostats four degrees lower than usual; if they do, the nation will save 400,000 barrels of heating...