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...dredged to 14 ft.-at a cost of $100,000 for a lake only 146 acres in size. Outside Indianapolis, Bacon Swamp, which once was a lake, is getting similar dredging treatment. Algaecides are also helpful, says Frey, and so is bubbling-in oxygen during a lake's stagnant summer months. But such processes are expensive, and practical only on small lakes...
Watching warily, U.S. officials hoped that Pak might finally stop the witch hunts, get down to grappling with South Korea's basic problems; scarcely anything had been done to get the stagnant economy going. At week's end, Pak took to a public rostrum to declare that "the revolution has entered the second stage . . . Its objectives are winning' the public mind, and reconstruction of the economy." Everyone would be happy if he followed up his words with a little action...
Under Kirby, the Murchisons charge, Alleghany's vast potential was largely negated by stagnant investment policy. The brothers have promised to split I.D.S. stock, which is currently selling at about $280, by perhaps 10 for 1, and to increase I.D.S.'s $1.25 quarterly dividend. Above all, they hope to rechannel Alleghany's investments into growth industries...
...system. His style is disjunctive and expressionistic, but it is also clear and direct. With a fluid, strikingly graphic technique, he achieves some memorable metaphors: the mad, drunken celebration of victory to Chopin's Polonaise in A Major; the ironic reflection of V-E day fireworks in a stagnant pool, beside which the Communist boss lies dead; the lovers in a ruined church, its Christ figure splintered and dangling upside down in the foreground; Maciek setting fire to each glass of vodka on a bar and delivering weird incantations to old, dead loves; his girl drenched in sunlight while...
...also are conscious self- a sewerful of unconscious Poe's "Eulalie"'. "I dwelt a world of moan, And my was a stagnant tide, Till the gentle Eulalie became my bride." Of these I on Macaulay most: to Spain and saw only disguised and increased , dominions of vast bulk strength, tempting, un, and defenseless, an empty ry, a sullen and torpid nation, on the throne, factions on the council, ministers who served only themselves, and soldiers who were terrible only to their countrymen, Men looked to France, and saw a large and compact territory, a rich soil, a central situation...