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Word: stoves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite reports that Keynes is dead and that Jimmy Carter cannot turn the economic stove higher than simmer, those future business executives across the river continue to reap the rewards of the increasing corporate demand for elite technocrats. The median starting salary of last June's Harvard Business School graduates was $22,000, ten per cent higher than the Class of '76, according to a report recently released by the Office of Career Development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Graduates Starting at $22,000 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...wealthy New York wife who keeps track of her husband via a Miss Mark--a photo-snapping snoop in tourist a clothing. Mix in the usual Venezuelan traffic jams and customs officials. Spice it up with a few out-of-the-ordinary difficulties--such as transporting a red gas stove across an ocean on a tiny boat--and the recipe sounds complete. But not quite...

Author: By Joellen Wlodkowski, | Title: Screwballing Amidst the Mango Trees | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

...standard chase routines. It is funny when Catherine Deneuve tries to keep her stolen painting afloat while swimming to shore from a sinking ship, but not nearly as funny as it was when Katherine Hepburn wrestled with her little leopard in Bringing Up Baby. The red gas stove is certainly milked for all its comic absurdity, yet Yves Montand cannot do with it half of what Buster Keaton did with a simple pair of bicycle handlebars in Sherlock Jr. Director Jean Paul Rappeneau seems to understand the basic atmospheric conditions of screwball humor, but he fails to enliven his combination...

Author: By Joellen Wlodkowski, | Title: Screwballing Amidst the Mango Trees | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

...title for an old favorite. Britain's Virginia Wade-"Our Ginny'- had appeared in 15 Wimbledons, always to crumple under the pressure of carrying her nation's hopes. This time, Wade, now 31, fought her way into the finals against Holland's solid Betty Stove, 32, who at 6 ft. 1 in., 160 lbs. is the strong -and slow-journeywoman of the circuit. In the first set of their face-off the Wade Wimbledon Choke appeared ready to repeat itself as the Englishwoman, playing tentatively, lost 4-6. But it was Stove who then fell apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon: Youth Will Be Served | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...year; in 1976 they reached more than $20 million. The grills are catching on worldwide; they are hot sellers in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. One reason for their popularity: with all the talk about energy saving, people have an added incentive to shun the gas or electric stove in favor of alfresco cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Backyard Bonanza | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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