Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only housing starts, but some other key indicators last week showed that the economy is surging into spring with the vigor of a baseball rookie. Despite the bitter winter, total U.S. output of goods and services rose 5.2% during the first three months of the year, up smartly from the 2.6% rate in the last quarter of 1976. Inflation slowed; consumer prices in March rose at an annual rate of 7.4%, v. 12.7% in February and 10% in January. March industrial production took its biggest jump in 19 months-1.4%-and personal income scored its largest increase in almost...
SAPPING ENERGY. The U.S. has developed a hodgepodge energy system in which various fuels have competed in wasteful price cutting. Industry and Government have behaved as bitter enemies. In a dawning era of scarcity, new partnerships must be formed, both between competitors within the energy industry and between industry and Government. Is it possible? Maybe...
...election.) "The pressures were tremendous," said Peres about the bargaining. "The most important thing is not to lose your nerve. In this sort of thing you are suddenly surrounded by conflicting forces and tension, nervousness-some of your friends are terribly worried and some of your opponents terribly bitter. It is basically a test for your nerves." To his listeners, the Peres formula for dealing with political adversaries also sounded like a blueprint for future peace negotiatons with the Arabs...
...Alpha Gallery at 121 Newbury is showing another commentary on contemporary society. The paintings of Scott Prior, to stay until May 3, are, for the most part, bitter condemnations of man's treatment of his environment. He paints landscapes marred by factory smokestacks or highways and homes cheapened by glaring billboards in the yards...
...tale of Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), a songwriter cum stud who has been flown into Los Angeles by his millionaire father (Denver Pyle) on the pretense of composing a battery of tunes for a superstar singer's next album. We see Carroll whisked from office to office, from bitter reunion to happy reunion, from boudoir to boudoir. A taciturn character by nature who oozes ennui from every pore, Carroll is everybody's darling, from his rags-to-riches dad who hasn't received a letter from his prodigal son in three years to the older women who roll...