Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone up since then, of course, but meat presents a special paradox. While its price has. stayed high, the amount the rancher gets for beef cattle has been falling, is now the lowest since 1956. Last week no less a cattleman-and consumer-than Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to unravel the paradox by appointing a 15-member national commission on food to investigate food prices, particularly those of beef...
...turns to literary criticism--and this takes up the bulk of the volume--that his historian's experience betrays him. It was Rowse's professed hope that by the use of proper "historical method" he could establish firm dates for the plays and poems, and then go on to unravel topical references in the material, as well as problems in Shakespeare's life...
Whilst nothing indecent at all happened that summer night, subsequent events related by Mr. Denning unravel a sophisticated mystery of sex, scandal, and security...
Aside from Thanksgiving, the Commencement pageantry which will gradually unravel in the Yard this morning is America's oldest continuous festival; by its forthright uniqueness, it is also one of the most endearing signs of the everlasting Harvard...
...will take some doing. Webb & Knapp's recently released 1962 annual report is a textbook of corporate debt and declining assets; its long-term debt is an astonishing 83% of its assets. Webb & Knapp's finances are sometimes so complicated that its own auditors are unable to unravel them. Two months ago, outside auditors had to be called in to double-check some calculations. The result: instead of the previously reported $5,000,000 profit for 1962's second and third quarters, Webb & Knapp was forced to declare a $7,700,000 loss...