Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orders descend on the cambists - some working in money-trading firms, many employed by banks, a growing number directly for multinationals. Though they work on order, they have some latitude. If a multinational orders its bank to sell, say, $1 million for German marks on a particular day, in Europe it is up to the bank's trader whether to let them all go at once or sell $500,000 in the morning, the rest in the afternoon. In New York, a trader must execute the order at a time and price that the client specifies...
...kiosk will not be its own familiar site in the Square during the construction period. In stead, passengers will stop in front of the Yen Ching chinese restaurant on Mass Ave, and descend into the subway in front of Holyoke Center. Another stop at the Kennedy School of Government will also include buses, and word has it that the new occupants of this building are not exactly looking forward to the location of the temporary stop...
About 20 very talented and very large athletes are going to descend on The Crimson when they see their names omitted from this admittedly arbitrary list, but as the cartoonist says, that's all, folks...
...Pioneer 2 bus will release a large probe and then three small ones. The bus and separated probes will continue their journey until they plunge into the Venusian atmosphere. Packed with instruments, they will all begin to take readings of atmospheric temperatures, density, composition and distribution as they descend. None is expected to land intact...
Asimov, when confronted with the deluge of verses he had caused to descend on us, composed a somewhat conciliatory retort...