Word: aver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report that "the things we have tried to achieve in the past by flashing a V sign, we try now through wishing." Son Sean, 3, is "beautiful," their plants are healthy, the cats are "purring." Lest anyone be hurt by the very private life they have been leading, they aver that their "silence is a silence of love and not of indifference. Remember, we are writing in the sky instead of on paper-that's our song...
...naturally prefer to have crab fanciers feed them its "special dinner mix" at $2 per 3-oz. shaker. Many owners buy fancy shells to serve as crab pads, coral trees for them to play in and, of course, leashes. Though they have less personality than, say, dolphins, fond owners aver that they are never crabby and are quite unshellfish...
...automobile culture, the state's highway budget for 1976 was presented last week, and it turned out to contain the lowest outlay for new construction since the 1950s. Road-building crews are to lay only 77 miles of state freeways and expressways, down from an annual aver age of 280 miles over the past eight years. Gasoline taxes that fund the highways are off because of higher gas prices, lower speed limits and less thirsty cars. And inflation boosted highway construction costs in the state by a staggering 60% last year. California, in the unique...
...promised so many programs without raising taxes that she has been dubbed, "spenderella" by aides of her Re-publical oopponant, Congressman Robert Steele, 35. He has picked up some antifeminist support from people who aver that "being Governer is a man's job" but the state of the economy keeps him on the defensive. Ella ahead...
...rules go into effect un changed, companies subject to wage control will no longer be able to aver age the chairman's raise with the book keeper's. They must set up an executive control group" comprising all officers and employee-directors who earn $30,000 or more a year. Increases for that group as a whole cannot average more than 5.5% a year, regard less of what happens to the rank and file; if the president gives himself a bigger increase, he will have to hold down the raises of his vice presidents. Executive wage hikes will...