Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before the mediator came, there was no sincerity or sense of follow-through in the talks. We tried to get some integrity into it," said Richardson. "The mediator's position was the worst in the world," he added...
Though Bruce cannot be tried again on the murder charge, Criswell said he would appeal the ruling in order to challenge the judge's interpretation of the juvenile's rights. "It's the worst miscarriage of justice I've ever seen," said the angry prosecutor. "The boy hadn't even been arrested. And his father was there. This is ridiculous. It means we have open season on mothers up here." If Judge Lansden's barring of the confession is overruled, it will hardly make any difference to Bruce, who has been committed to a state mental hospital by his father...
That prospective performance compares with a 4% growth last year, which was the worst since the Common Market's first full year. Earlier this year, EEC experts predicted a slowdown of lesser proportions. The German recession, however, proved more durable than anticipated; despite recent frantic efforts to revive business, a fifth of Germany's industrial capacity stands idle. This year, the country's gross national product is expected to drop about...
...Greek tragedies, proud men and women roll their lives like dice against the gods and lose. Man proposes but fate disposes. Euripides, the most skeptical and psychologically minded of the classic tragedians, recognized that man is sometimes his own worst fate. Iphigenia in Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan's Circle in the Square in a translation by Minos Volanakis, shows men and women undoing themselves through ambition, power, lust, fear, guile and egocentric arrogance. At its heart, however, the play is a Grecian urn of tears, an incomparably moving lament for all who die young in war. Directed...
...juggle his travel to take advantage of the cut-rate schedules. TWA figures that $20 million worth of business that otherwise would have produced full fares will be diverted to discount fares this year, adding only $16.7 million to revenues. "In this respect, we've been our own worst enemies," says Executive Vice President G. Ray Woody of National Airlines. Despite a 17% rise in total operating revenues, the nation's eleven major domestic carriers and Pan American World Airways suffered a 9% drop in operating profits during the first half of this year...