Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report forecasts a slowdown in the growth of the gross national product to about $47 billion, or 4% in stable dollars, compared with the too-swift expansion of $58 billion (51%) last year. Anything more than 4%, the council says, would surpass the nation's capacity in both plant and manpower. The trick, of course, is to keep the slowdown from going too far and prices from rising too fast. Last week banks began lowering the prime rate of interest, giving important evidence that the Administration's prediction of easier credit had foundation (see U.S. BUSINESS). Housing...
Late last year, Reyre even tried to take over Columbia Pictures Corp. by buying 37% of its stock in a swift and surprising $40 million raid. The U.S.'s Federal Communications Commission thwarted that move, but Paribas still expects to wind up with two seats on Columbia's board of directors. Last week Reyre reached across yet another border by announcing that Paribas has acquired a share in the West German business bank of S. J. Warburg. "He is very smart, very brave," says admiring Frank Manheim, a partner in Manhattan's Lehman Bros. "And he knows...
...since irate Togolese soldiers murdered President Sylvanus Olympic because he had refused to spend more money on the army. What more appropriate way to celebrate the anniversary than with another coup? So Army Chief of Staff Etienne Guassinghe Eyadéma, 34, did just that. In a swift and bloodless takeover, he ousted President Nicholas Grunitzky, suspended the constitution and the National Assembly, and banned all political parties. Coup No. 2 for tiny Togo (pop. 1,617,000) was the seventh military takeover in a year for Black Africa...
...makes the reader pick over acres of some vast garbage dump; yet he leaves him with the belief that the mutilated body of someone of great value lies buried in the stinking trash. In English, there has been no one like him since Swift, and in French, there has been no one like him at all. Mad doctors both-in their different ways. Only moral simpletons who have not understood that pity is the cruel emotion will fail to grasp the root of the rage of either...
DEAN (handing the student a diploma printed on sheeplike vinyl): We've done all we can for you, son. In George Orwell's paraphrase: "The race is not to the swift-nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance...