Word: heights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...I.A.S. director-a review in the government newspaper Izvestia of the Brookings Institution's Agenda for the Nation. Said Arbatov: "One discovers in this book what is probably one of the basic problems of the U.S. today-the organic link between internal difficulties that have reached an unprecedented height and the foreign policy course that Washington pursues...
...sponsor-the United Housing Foundation, a nonprofit group organized by 40 labor unions-conceived the $294 million project on a monumental scale. When it is completed in 1971, Co-Op City will cover 300 acres of filled marshland, with 35 apartment towers, from 24 to 33 stories in height, eight block-square parking garages, six schools, several shopping centers, 236 townhouses, and assorted service buildings-an instant city...
This representation is one of the first uses of a new computer graphics technique, now being explored by the Graduate School of Design, which can produce representations of surfaces, either real or imaginary, as seen from any desired direction and height. These surfaces can be of any shape except those involving vertical precipices or overhanging cliffs...
...York when he was about 23, and an older brother turned restaurateur helped send him through art school. Ryder lived in Greenwich Village and later in a West Side rooming house, where he slept huddled beneath piles of worn-out overcoats on a floor that was heaped to a height of two feet with yellowing newspapers, empty cans, cheese rinds and mice months dead in the traps he had set for them. Troubled with weak eyesight since childhood (and later by gout, malnutrition and kidney disease as well), he stayed indoors during the day, roamed the streets of Manhattan...
...vulnerability of some so-called "growth stocks" shows up in the ratio between share prices and corporate earnings. Such issues now sell in the over-the-counter market at an average of 40 times their per-share profits, a height last reached shortly before the market's 1962 plunge. Since 1966, the average price-earnings ratio of American Exchange stocks has jumped from 10-1 to 26-1. By contrast, the Dow-Jones industrial average finished 1968 at a level only 16.7 times the average per-share earnings of its stocks, down from 17.2 a year earlier. The decline...