Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Namias and other meteorologists agree on the immediate reason for the bitterly cold weather. The high-level westerly winds-including the jet stream-that whistle through the upper atmosphere high above the U.S. have been circulating in an unusual pattern. Normally in winter these winds flow more directly across the country from west to east. This winter they are cutting across the Rockies much farther to the north than usual and then, as they head toward the East Coast, dipping much farther south than normal...
...increases in the cost of milk, meat and vegetables. While they suffered, the nation's remaining 10% prospered. The rich grew richer under President Anwar Sadat, who returned property sequestered by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser and made private investment easier in a vain attempt to persuade upper-class Egyptians to put their money into productive enterprises rather than real estate, which provides better returns...
Sweat and Gibber. Raven, 49, is also a writer of mysteries and high-class potboilers (Friends in Low Places) that dwell on sex and intrigue among the upper classes. But he has been a dedicated Trollopian since his undergraduate days at Cambridge. Nevertheless, he spent six months "sweating and gibbering" before he found the right blueprint for the series, which he suggested. He would throw out Trollope's character A as boring and superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when...
...Haverford's board of managers-including two members who also serve on Bryn Mawr's governing board-saw things Bryn Mawr's way. Although it voted to allow women transfer students into Haverford's upper three classes, there are actually very few openings for transfer students. Bryn Mawr called the decision "a victory of coeducation through cooperation...
...quintessential, slightly hoarse upper-class Manhattan honk, Tom Wolfe once theorized in New York magazine, can only be produced by the proper Eastern boarding schools, too many cigarettes over too many years and a great deal of whisky and gin. New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea. His accent remains stubbornly and glottally Midwestern nasal. He flunks the honk test...