Word: upping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENTERTAINMENT. Movies were more expensive, up 25? per ticket in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The cost of watching a Pittsburgh Steelers home game rose from $6 to $7-plus a 15? surcharge to help pay for a now abuilding stadium, whose estimated price increased from $32 million...
That statement sums up Friedman. He is the rare theorist whose influence is best measured not by the devotion of his followers?though that can be extreme?but by the extent to which his ideas have altered the thinking of his opponents. The mixture of supreme self-confidence and good...
His son David, 24, calls him a "libertarian anarchist" who even raised his children by free-market rules. Friedman once offered David, then ten, and his older sister Janet a choice of Pullman berths for a cross-country train trip, or the extra price of those berths in cash. The...
M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson, a leading Keynesian economist, has complained that Friedman's students are "brainwashed" because they cannot stand up to their teacher in classroom discussion. But nobody questions Friedman's popularity on the campus; in addition to his 30 regular students, another 100 drop in to his classes...
At this melodramatic point, the film achieves its peak. Sailor's face empurples, his lips work and bubble, his body goes limp. "Walk, you son of a bitch, walk!" screams Gloria, carrying a corpse on her back, defying Rocky, circumstances, the Depression-and finally life itself in a racking...