Word: share
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educated Cairene: "I feel like a foreigner when I'm with the Egyptian lower class. When I meet my driver every day, I ask him about his family, and that is about all the conversation we can make together. We have nothing in common to talk about, nothing to share...
There is no evidence as Americans enter 1978 that they share Hardy's aesthetic view and prefer chaos to calm. For the first time in more than a dozen years, abroad and at home the nation is at peace and clearly enjoying it. Sons do not go off to die in foreign fields, and daughters do not end their lives making bombs for a war at home. The crime rate, particularly for murder, is way down. The hatreds that lashed American cities, while not cured, are curbed. The humiliations of political deceit no longer command headlines...
...source of the bonanza is North Sea oil. By the end of 1977, taxes and royalties on it will have brought the government a trifling $9.5 million. But during 1978 and 1979, the government's take will multiply a thousand times, and by the mid-1980s Whitehall's share will be running at $6.7 billion a year...
...personalities the movement embraces, that elegant and curmudgeonly Convert Malcolm Muggeridge will be on hand to share the lectern with the two women...
...takeovers have spiced an otherwise dreary stock market. Marshall Field stock last week rose from $22.75 to $29.25 a share, still short of C.H.H.'s offer of $36. National Starch shares jumped more than 20 points in a single day and closed at $65.50; even those who bought at that price will profit by selling to Unilever at $73.50. That situation points up the big gest reason for the takeover trend: prices of many stocks have sunk so low that a cash-rich company can offer a tempting premium and still pick up corporate as sets for less money...