Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plunge ahead anyway, haggling out the new terms under which one-fifth of the world's population will live. Perhaps because Mountbatten is one of their primary sources, Collins and Lapierre cast him in heroic mold. The great-grandson of Queen Victoria faces his task with a stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one; he relishes the pomp of the viceroy's office while struggling to give it away...
...Brookings Institution disagrees. International comparisons are irrelevant, says Pechman; other countries have been investing more because they have had to; they were behind economically, and trying to catch up. That is also why their growth rates have been higher--they had lower starting points. In other words, at the upper reaches of per capita output, marginal growth rates can only be very small...
...often deceptive budgetary studies that measure the city's economic plight. Senior Editor Marshall Loeb edited the cover package. Associate Editor Edwin Warner, who has written most of our previous New York crisis stories, outlined long-range reforms to keep the city solvent. Past chairman of his Upper West Side block association, Warner comments: "Part of the solution will come from New Yorkers who have learned to cope with the city's problems by working to improve their own neighborhoods...
...Morgan led off the Cincinnati sixth and drew a walk. Bench followed with a hit-and-run single to center, and Morgan dashed to third. Tony Perez came up again and hit a Reggie Cleveland fastball off the facing of the upper deck in leftfield. Cincinnati then had a safe 5-1 lead...
...color bar is not being lifted entirely, and the government is only floating it in response to the 17 per cent inflation which has been caused by the too-rapid growth of South African industry. There are no longer enough skilled whites to man the upper levels of the factories and mines. While the floating bar will allow the Africans a chance to be promoted, if a qualified white applies for the African's job the black will return immediately to the lower level...