Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait until Americans are pulverized and bloodied by too much noise? If it is loud and continuous, doctors know, noise irreparably damages the microscopic hair cells that transmit sound from the ear to the brain, thus causing hearing loss. In addition, it almost certainly affects blood pressure, heartbeat, and virtually every bodily function, and may have much to do with emotional ailments as well. Sums up Baron: "It is a form of persecution...
What Is High? Simultaneously, inflation makes bonds or mortgages unattractive investments. If prices kept on rising during the 20 to 40 years that investors often must wait for full repayment of principal, investors eventually would get back dollars worth much less than those they originally lent. Meanwhile, interest rates would keep on climbing-to levels that might make even today's yields look piddling because lenders would demand even higher returns to keep ahead of prices. (Some mortgage lenders now grumble that they are "stuck" with loans made years ago at interest that seemed high then...
After ten minutes of actual blood giving, the other nurse began closing off valves and unhooking me. She put a wad of cotton and a super-sized bandaid over the puncture. Then the nurse told me to sit up slowly and wait for an escort. A nice old lady wearing a volunteer's blue orderly coat escorted me arm-in-arm over to "the canteen." I was seated at a table and told to stay there at least 15 minutes to rest and eat crackers, cookies, and have something to drink (coffee, Coke, or Seven-Up). The wives of some...
...wait until late in 1970 and try to estimate how many men under his local draft board have higher numbers and how many might be called. If it looked safe, he could drop out of school, wait to not be drafted, and go on with whatever he wanted to do: His liability would expire the first...
...here!" he shouted. Looking out over the Ocean of Storms, both he and Bean-unlike the relatively taciturn Apollo 11 crew-gushed. They described an undulating plain pocked by craters and filled with large boulders that looked gleaming white in the early-morning sun. "Damn, I can't wait to get outside," said Conrad. "Those rocks have been waiting 41 billion years for us to come and grab them...