Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dollar. It steadied after Washington began buying up unwanted greenbacks to prop their price, but dipped a bit again at week's end, apparently because Carter's State of the Union speech failed to convince foreign moneymen that the Administration has a handle on the economy's problems. In the long run, dollar stability will depend on U.S. progress in reducing its gargantuan trade deficit of almost $30 billion?and not much progress is expected this year. Congressional passage of an energy bill?almost any energy bill ?would help by demonstrating American determination to cut oil imports, the biggest...
...response to a question concerning Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat's recent criticisms of U.S. positions, Powell said, "If we have to let folks beat us over the head a bit while we keep our mouths shut in order to facilitate negotiations, then...
Ford also said that Welsh played in the American Soccer League for the team which won the championship. However, Ford said that he would rate the North American Soccer League, to which the Tea Men belong, a bit higher...
What did the company in was the CB craze, and a bit of incredibly bad timing. Hy-Gain began making the compact communications units about four years ago, and raced to sales of $96.8 million in 1976. Responding to public interest in CB, the Federal Communications Commission in July of that year authorized new 40-channel sets that could be sold after Jan. 1, 1977. Hy-Gain and other makers slashed prices on the old 23-channel sets, but the public preferred to wait for the new models. Result: Hy-Gain had to buy back from dealers $12 million...
...experienced in the spring of 1976 during a six-week sojourn in the women's section of the maximum security ward of the Oregon State Hospital. "I wanted," says Mark, "to do an essay on the personalities of people who are locked away-to show a little bit of what they're like, especially the women. I didn't want to show them as exotically crazy." What resulted was, in fact, a lamentation: one of the most delicately shaded studies of vulnerability ever set on film...