Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controls. But excessive Government spending, towering deficits and ever multiplying regulations are also fundamental causes of the price spiral. Says Pfizer's Pratt: "We have told the President, as most companies have, that we will abide by the guidelines. But what the Government itself is doing is a big part of the problem." In short, the nation would benefit tremendously if Washington were to adopt and obey some price guidelines...
...refuse to buy. To critics who argue that such conversions are driving out the cash-shy old and young, realtors respond rather unpersuasively that condos and co-ops have stabilized neighborhoods and kept them up by giving the middle class the advantages and responsibilities of ownership. But the big switch to apartment ownership will make it harder for many Americans to find apartments at prices they can afford...
...automatically transmitted to one or 1,000 receiving devices attached to phones throughout the system. IBM, the world's largest producer of electric typewriters for offices, already makes and markets a PBX system in Europe, and rumors are swirling around Wall Street that it is considering a big move into the U.S. market...
...work after the big snows in the East last week, a number of Manhattanites, from Wall Street lawyers to Broadway actors, simply got out their cross-country skis. So did Washingtonians, including Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell, enabling him to better explain his boss's tumble while learning the sport in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain National Park near Camp David...
...converted trawlers. At Waldo Point, just north of San Francisco, Sandy White, 32, a businesswoman, lives aboard a 41-year-old, 62-ft. former naval ferry that she bought for $4,500 in 1972 and has since spent some $50,000 to refurbish; it boasts a living room big enough for a central stove, bookshelves and a piano. At Seattle's Shilshole Bay Marina, John Polikowsky, 55, an art teacher, has spent six years building his 44-ft. live-aboard sloop, Panope. "This," he says, "is a good combination of having my cake and living...