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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone from drivers to drinkers was victimized, the Chicken Little pessimists, who had bet on bullion and other precious metals, were made to look prescient. Among the winners were people who had shrewdly put away dimes, quarters and half dollars minted before 1965; at year's end an original $1,000 in those almost pure silver coins was worth $16,300. But anybody who had put his money in a savings bank was a sucker; a $1,000 deposit declined in real value during the year to about $900, after inflation and taxes on the interest receipts...
...newfound, very special relationship. On Carter's part, it was first of all sheer gratitude for the most forthright, unequivocal support he has received from any ally; and in the gloom of a dark December her message rang especially sweet. "At times like this, you are entitled to look to your friends," she roundly declared. "We are your friends. We do support you; we shall support you. Let there be no doubt about that...
...studies in a sport that contracted a lingering case of fanny-wagging cuteness from Olga Korbut. With a gold medal draped around her neck, Kim as sayed the Lolita style of her rivals: "Even girls who are 18 and 19 for some reason try to do everything possible to look twelve and 13. I think we should separate women's and children's gymnastics...
...session in an ashram only to discover that his Indian counterparts use 2-ft.-long clubs. The visitor emerges with a broken arm. At a Delhi football stadium the followers of one guru await the miraculous proof of God from their master. His evidence: "God exists because if you look in the Oxford English Dictionary under the letter G, you will eventually find the word God." The prize for Hindu chutzpah, however, goes to the master who asked an ambassador's wife about the pain in her leg. "It has never given any pain," replied the woman. The unflustered...
...mind when she dreamed of her dead David. What Barrie discovered in his single masterpiece is that almost everyone secretly yearns for vanished innocence. Most people put the search aside to answer the demands of here and now. Barrie's tragedy was that he was condemned to look for it every day of his life...