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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stiles barely missed three attempts with the bar at 17 ft., 1/2 in. "Seventeen feet looks like it's there, "Stiles said. "It's just a matter of a bit more practice...
Indeed, by the time a girl is good enough to strut her stuff for five minutes at the line tryouts, her parents have quite a bit invested. Private twirling lessons can run as high as $25 an hour. A week at one of the dozen or more twirling camps that blossom in the heat of Texas summer is about $90. Stretchy costumes cost as much as $60. The batons themselves, chrome-plated steel from 16 in. to 30 in. long, are about $12.50. Twirler parents spend about $600 a year, and some begin pushing their daughters into contests before they...
...relations with the U.S.: The foundations of Japan's foreign policy are built on close relations with the U.S. This must not be allowed to change. There must not be the slightest bit of mistrust between the two nations...
Fortunately, Kahn gets on well with most other economic policymakers, notably Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze. Just about everybody in Washington agrees that Kahn is talented, if a bit of a ham, but that he needs to direct himself better. Kahn concurs: "I'm getting pretty sick of talking about all the things I'm going to do. I want to devote more time to the substance of this...
...general the large companies probably will take an ever increasing share of the market, because they have the money for the extensive research, intensive promotion and building up of widespread distribution networks. The growth of cosmetics sales is expected to slow a bit, to perhaps 8% or 8.5% annually over the next few years, from 9% to 12.5% during 1976-77-78. One reason is that cosmetics companies are suffering from their own promotional success; many women now regard cosmetics as necessities to be bought all the time, rather than as luxury items to splurge on when incomes rise. That...