Word: seven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven-figure club is no longer what it used...
...larger firms and moving to Sunbelt states to enjoy their riches. Skilled professionals in fields such as neurosurgery and the law now make enough in fees to enable them to enter the millionaire class rather rapidly. In addition, top corporate executives are fairly often able to pile up a seven-figure net worth over the years...
...state, largely because of the soaring price of land on its many large farms. Maine, a longtime retreat of the rich, is second with 7.72 millionaires per 1,000, while North Dakota, with its sprawling farms and ranches, is third with 6.9. The states with the lowest concentrations of seven-figure citizens: Arkansas, with .34 millionaires per 1,000, and Wyoming, where the ratio is just .19. Nonetheless, to reverse Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum, just about everywhere the rich are becoming less and less distinguishable from everyone else...
...menstrual cycle. But which days? Now a study of Orthodox Jewish women at Jerusalem's Hebrew University has produced a clue. Tallying up the sex of 3,658 babies born to women who observed the Jewish practice of niddah, which forbids sexual relations during menstruation and for seven days thereafter, Epidemiologist Susan Harlap reports a surprising result in the New England Journal of Medicine: of the 145 babies born to women who resumed intercourse two days after ovulation, 65.5% were boys; normally the figure is about 50%. One theory: the vagina and cervix at that time of month...
...Raphael!" they were adopting Marinetti's febrile rhetoric against the art of the past. In those years, even Marc Chagall was the painter he would never be again: the delight in form rather than nostalgia as the stuff of poetry that pervades a work like Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers, 1913, is very far removed from the flossy kitsch-Judaica of his past 30 years...