Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...party and consolidate an effective majority behind a constructive program . . . The Democratic Party's platform goes far beyond the Republican platform in making promises of large spending. Yet it calls at this time for 'no increase in present tax rates.' This is not a reassuring prospect, since it involves the hazards of inflation ... In this election, as in all elections, there are points of strength and points of weakness on both sides ... On balance our choice is Mr. Kennedy...
...This prospect did not seem to bother the growing number of Lumumba supporters among the U.N.'s neutral-nation membership; a frequent Lumumba visitor last week was Metrol A. Rahman chargé d'affaires of India, reflecting the likelihood that Jawaharlal Nehru has bought the line of Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Touré that the only man to run the Congo is Patrice Lumumba...
...tries to block you by going for your legs, run over him the first time. He'll shy away after that." Following an impressive sophomore year, LaRose had a bad season as a junior ("The publicity went to my head"), has rallied this season to become a prime prospect for the pros. In Missouri's 21-8 victory over Penn State, LaRose recovered two fumbles, batted down key passes, did his team's kicking, caught a touchdown pass and deflected a punt...
...contradict the market's recent history, where fear of inflation has helped send stocks up since they are considered one of the best hedges against it. But brokers had an answer to this paradox; they argued that inflation sends the market up only when there is a prospect that earnings and dividends will keep pace with inflation and not be squeezed by rising costs, as they have been for many corporations...
...tall, thin man with closely cropped hair, Bentley had originally intended to be a concert pianist. The prospect of the professional musician's grim life changed his mind at the last minute, and he went from Oxford to Yale, where he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature. Among his many books and anthologies, The Playwright as Thinker (1946) and In Search of a Theater (1947), are the most well known. He has attracted a wide audience of grateful readers with his series of anthologies, From the Modern Repertoire, The Modern Theater, and The Classic Theater. Bentley as an anthologizer tends...