Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...checks, which the sellers?individuals and corporations?deposit in their bank accounts. The checks become new money, available to be loaned out. When the Fed sells Government securities, it withdraws money from circulation; the buyers pay with checks that disappear into Federal Reserve vaults, never more to be seen. The less money that banks have to lend, the higher interest rates will rise. The FOMC focuses on the Fed funds rate at which banks lend to each other, targeting its buying and selling to push up or pull down that rate to a desired level. The Fed funds rate influences...
...game was big too. Early on, the 5-ft. 7-in. Navratilova was nicknamed the Iron Maiden for her stamina and physical power. Her first serve is the strongest women's tennis has seen since the heyday of Margaret Court. Even as a teenager, she could pin opponents to the stadium wall with deep, booming serves. She charged to the net for follow-up volleys as aggressively as Billie Jean King at her fearless peak. With adequate (if occasionally unsteady) groundstrokes, her only on-court enemy was herself: she rattled easily, making unforced errors, while her concentration wandered. Still...
...cases, the Center for Disease Control estimates that between 4 million and 9 million Americans are afflicted. NGU is noted most often in young, single, sexually active whites from the middle and upper classes. Says Dr. William McCormack of Harvard Medical School: "Almost all of the urethritis that is seen in college health services and in private practice is nongonococcal...
...such work might come from one of Byron's letters from Venice in 1817. Painting, the irritable bard declared, was of all arts "the most artificial and unnatural... I never yet saw the picture ... which came within a league of my conception or expectation; but I have seen many mountains, and Seas and Rivers, and views, and two or three women, who went as far beyond it, besides some horses." Just so, all art is a lie told in the service of truth, but however feeble art may be in the face of nature, one still cannot...
This summer at various times, many public television stations are airing 26 episodes of the series, which has not been seen since it was discontinued in 1959. Intended as a tribute to a TV great, this revival may actually tarnish the Murrow legend. The years have not been kind to Person to Person. As one watches Murrow pay his electronic "visits" to famous homesteads, it is hard to ignore the man's obsequiousness. He laughs at his guests' every joke; he helps plug their new books; he hypes their every trivial accomplishment. On these shows Murrow is every...