Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flying back to England this Monday, Hufton will have spent her first days in Cambridge on a whirlwind tour of meetings while also trying to make time to find an apartment and pick a school for her youngest daughter, Claire...
Come next March the monarchs will stir, begin mating and in a great whirlwind of color set out for the U.S. Six months later, a new generation will fly south, headed for the tiny patches of fir forest that conservationists and Mexican officials hope will be a butterfly refuge for another epoch...
...WHIRLWIND, Clavell...
...whirlwind, nine-day campaign, about 15 members of Students for Ethical Government lobbied in the student. post office for their cause. Students for Ethical Government also sponsored speakers such as John Keppel, who worked in the State Department for 22 years. Keppel spoke on the Reagan administration's alleged cover-up of the spying intentions of the Korean Airline jet shot down by the Soviets...
...others, the whirlwind of activity seems more like a new variation on Mark Twain's Gilded Age, a time of reckless speculation and profiteering. Amid the hubbub of buying and selling, a host of probing questions are being asked about the stock market and its relationship to U.S. capitalism in general. Has the market become more volatile, risky and perhaps more irrational than ever before? Is it suddenly too treacherous for the ordinary investor? Is the very function of the market changing, as fast-buck artists crowd in to pursue big quick returns that have little or nothing...