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...that threaten some people's sense ofhow things should be, but we can't go back to the19th century when the so-called minorities weretruly invisible and silent," she says. "Those daysare over and we had better learn how to deal withthe present and future, rather than trying to turnback the clock...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Two Professors Sue French Magazine | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...appears to be maintaining most of its momentum. The Government's index of leading indicators-which portends economic trends-was off nine-tenths of a per cent in September, its first drop in seven months. But analysts did not see the slight drop as an omen of a turnback toward recession. The stock market was rattled by President Ford's decision not to aid financially pressed New York City; the Dow Jones industrial index slumped to 836.04, down 4.48 for the week. At week's end First National City Bank lowered its prime rate from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Detroit Revs Up Its Sales Engine | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...initial extension would provide turnback and storage facilities for Red Line trains and would replace the tracks on the site of the proposed Kennedy Library...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: The Red Line Extends | 3/10/1973 | See Source »

There was little doubt that Mississippi would deliver heavily for George Wallace, and it did, giving him over 80 per cent of the popular vote in that state. All five Democratic incumbents, running for re-election to the House won easy victories, with G. V. Montgomery of Meridian turnback former Congressman Prentiss Walker in the only seriously contested race in the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Nation: How the People Voted | 11/6/1968 | See Source »

Johnson had not only subdued the bankers but, quite unlike the case of President Kennedy's turnback of the steel price rise in 1962, left few visible scars on the business community. Business leaders, who like to borrow their money as cheaply as possible, were in no mood to complain. Wall Street was cheered by the continuing prospect of easy money; the stock market, which suffered its worst fall of the year (11 points) on the day that the Boston bank raised its rate, promptly recovered most of the lost ground. Such criticism as there was fell less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: A Strategic Withdrawal | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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