Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purchases have occurred, and ads offering U.S. farm land dance across European newspapers and magazines. Still, aliens are neither big buyers nor big owners of land. In the unlikely event that a buying boom were to start tomorrow, it would not hurt either farmers or the country as a whole...
...here and pay $1,500, $1,800 or even $2,000 an acre for land that, even with inflation, should not cost more than $800." Iowa Congressman Tom Harkin warns that the oil-producing nations, which sold the U.S. $45 billion worth of petroleum last year, "could buy the whole state of Iowa, every acre of farm producing land, with just 394 days of oil production...
...improving. One of the best-known business specialists is Kathleen Cooper, 33, who is an economist for the Denver-based United Banks of Colorado, an 18-bank holding company. Says she: "More and more women are coming into the profession and doing well, but there aren't a whole lot at the top. I'm a rarity." Another rarity is Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president and treasurer of Townsend-Greenspan, economic consultants to many of the nation's largest corporations. She assumed most of the duties of the firm's president, Alan Greenspan, when he went...
...1970s were the decade in which Modernism died. Its Boot Hill turned out to be the U.S., in whose hospitable soil the dreams of the pioneers of modern art and architecture lie buried, toes to the rising sun. Once they hoped the world would be made whole by new paintings and new buildings. It was not, and there is no avant-garde any more; the very phrase has been scrapped, becoming one of the historical curiosities of criticism...
Scott-Heron and Jackson have a reason for their music that should quiet all the suspicious speculation about their art. Scott-Heron summed it up in a verse from "Angola, Louisiana": "This song may not reach a whole lot of people persuaded by the truth/But take a look at what's goin' on 'cause it could happen to you." He is so right...