Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commerce Department announced that real growth for the economy as a whole slowed to 1.3% in 1973's fourth quarter. It was the smallest rise since late 1970 and a sign that a recession may well begin in the current quarter. William Simon, chief of the Federal Energy Office, said that he expects that the energy crisis could wipe out upwards of 1.8 million jobs. If so, that would add about two percentage points to the present 4.9% unemployment rate...
...British tommies huddled miserably in a crater at the shell-scarred front. "If you know a better 'ole," one says sharply to the other, "go to it." Like the tommies, the Prime Minister badly needs a better 'ole. Heath is faced with a crisis that shows no sign of immediate relief-and threatens to wreck the nation's economy. His confrontation with the country's coal miners has reduced Britain to such austerity measures to conserve energy as cutting power 35%, putting industry and business on a three-day week, and shutting off television...
...Harold Dunbar Cooley, 76, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina from 1934 to 1966; of emphysema; in Wilson, N.C. Cooley was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture for 16 years and veteran of countless annual farm battles. He was the only Southern Democratic Congressman who survived a refusal to sign the "Southern Manifesto" against racial integration...
...writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely existed for them at all; they expressed their thoughts with characters, not words, and these characters, having evolved from pictograms, were both sign and idea. A mark of the brush could both mean and represent a mountain; as Sherman Lee notes in his catalogue, "Since one designed and wrote a character with the care demanded by art and one's own personality, it was natural to think in terms of ink and brush...
...that fails, Jacob said, Radcliffe residents may petition the Houses and in the Yard for support of Radcliffe's 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio, or might take stronger action, such as refusing to sign next year's room contracts and organizing freshmen to do the same...