Word: thrive
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...procedure. If the astronauts and the Apollo craft are indeed harboring alien organisms, the bugs could escape into the air when the hatch is opened, or be washed into the ocean while the astronauts are donning their biological suits. If the organisms are fond of oxygen or nitrogen-or thrive in salt water -they could begin to spread and multiply. Most scientists agree that the chances of life on the moon are remote, and some believe that any moon organisms would have reached the earth long ago on particles ejected from the moon during meteor impacts. If they are wrong...
...produce a "blip-blip" on TV, Author Norman Mailer and Writer Jimmy Breslin formally announced their respective candidacies for New York City mayor and city council president. What's more, they were serious about it. "We are sentimental about the past," said Mailer. "We want New York to thrive again, to be a city famous for the charm, ferocity, elegance, strength, calm and racy character of its separate neighborhoods." The Mailer-Breslin plan is to detach the city from New York State and make it a city-state of its own, organized on the basis of homogeneous neighborhoods that...
...held for more than six months are taxed at only one-half the rate on ordinary income, and no more than 27½% in any case. Defenders of capital gains have a compelling argument: people must be encouraged to take risks with capital if a private economy is to thrive. On the other hand, many experts agree with Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, who holds that the present ceiling is too low. To discourage speculation in securities, the holding period might be extended from six months to one year. Congress also needs to redefine and limit the scope...
Game of Catch Up. "The secret of my success," says Davenport, "is staying relaxed." What keeps him loosened up? "Pressure," he says paradoxically. "I thrive on pressure." He has had plenty. Hot on his heels this season have been Erv Hall and Leon Coleman, the second-and fourth-place finishers in the 1968 Olympics. In Philadelphia two weeks ago, Davenport was so relaxed that he seemed to have fallen asleep in the starting blocks. "I don't know what happened," he says, "but all of a sudden everybody was out there ahead of me. From then...
...good time for American journalism, he feels. "Most of the papers were completely corrupt: their policies were dictated by their advertisers. . . . But there were a great many papers in those days--New York had sixteen dailies--and papers thrive on competition. Nowadays each city has only one or two daily papers, and no new ones are being started--that's not the way it should...