Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used it to shake more than $10 million out of the citizens of Boston in 1919 and 1920. The principle is simple: the first group of investors are paid dividends out of the money contributed by newer investors. Eventually, such an operation has to collapse of its own weight, but the rewards can initially look good. In 1970, for example, Western Union Chairman Russell W. McFall invested $60,000 in Home-Stake and got a dividend...
...promising position in an art gallery turns into a prolonged pass from her porcine boss, who chats her up by quoting Reich on the sexual revolution. Her husband announces plans for remarriage, Elisabeth suspects, just to bolster his claim to custody of their son. Under the accumulated weight of legal problems and the meager life she has managed to make for herself, she finally gives in and falls into the arms of the engineer. He is a decent sort who suggests they marry. The security of marriage, he points out, will make everything easier for her again. She may even...
...this is the attitude of society as a whole, there is much to be said for it: a stable but not static society adjusts itself by listening to recitals of grievances, striking balances between competing passions strongly held, heeding complaints of injustice and responding to, if nothing else, the weight of numbers. In such a canceling out of conflicting claims and in such readiness to compromise, society finds a mean that may not be golden but works. The confusion begins when people think of themselves as embodying these balancing qualities and consider themselves disinterested while all about them are self...
Arbatov's statement is accurate enough, but it applies with equal weight to the Soviet Union, a point he makes, perhaps unconsciously, when he suggests that the fears of one side are the mirror image of those of the other side. "Senator Jackson claims that development of Soviet-American trade will indirectly help Soviet military programs," he says. "The mirror image of that is for us to ask: Should we help your domestic economic problems by trading with the U.S. and thus creating jobs there and supplying needed raw materials? By trade we do not mean mutual aid, but mutual...
ARMS CONTROL. The U.S. agreed to what Nixon called "parity," an equation that includes missiles and warheads and supposedly gives each side equal strategic weight against the other. In signing SALT I, the U.S. formally acknowledged that it was no longer seeking to maintain the strategic superiority it had held for a generation following World...