Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clemente where the late millionaire real estate developer Henry Hamilton Cotton liked to entertain his fellow Democrats, once including Franklin Roosevelt. The Nixons wanted only the house and a parcel of 5.9 acres, but the Cotton heirs insisted on selling the entire property, covering 24.6 acres. To swing the deal, the Nixons agreed to pay $1.4 million, with $400,000 in cash and a $1,000,000 mortgage...
With individuals out of the market, N.Y.S.E. volume has never reached the 20 million-share daily average that brokerages had geared themselves to handle. And with institutions dominating trading, volume and prices have begun to swing wildly; recently the Dow Jones average leaped 29 points in a single day and then tumbled 17 points only five trading days later. Reason...
Before leaving Washington two weeks ago, he grandly described his swing through Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Jamaica as "the most important trip to Latin America by a Secretary of State in the past 40 years." In fact, it may end up as a diplomatic fiasco. If so, Washington will have to bear a large share of the blame...
...trouble. As the 85-ton spacecraft began circling the earth, it jettisoned its protective shroud, moved its telescope mount into place and unfolded the four windmill-like solar wings that sit above it. But indications were that the remaining solar wing on the Orbital Workshop could not swing out more than a few degrees from the ship and was thus not able to unfold its light-gathering panels. That was bad news indeed. It meant that Skylab was deprived of more than half its electrical power. Even if the astronauts were sent up to Skylab, the serious energy crisis...
...emerge part way from the command-module hatch. Using a pole with cutting shears at its far end (hastily being designed and built at Huntsville), he will try to trim away any debris around the root of the ripped-off solar wing or elsewhere. He will also attempt to swing out the intact wing...