Word: catched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princeton in a game that was chopped up by a total of 45 foul calls. But a Steve Mills whirlybird layup with 2:30 remaining spread the Tiger lead to five, 51-46, and Harvard--now 3-12, 1-2 in the Ivies--had nothing left with which to catch the weakest Princeton squad it's faced in years...
...marketplace. In recent weeks they have been on strike, protesting against the low retail prices set by the government. Swordfish, for example, is listed at about 200 a pound at the market, and is unavailable. But a few lucky consumers get swordfish from fishermen friends, who peddle their catch out on the "island," the curving sand peninsula that protects Luanda harbor from the sea. There, a pound of swordfish goes for about 45¢ or 55?...
Angola has been steamrollered in some business deals. Cuba was granted fishing rights off the coast, and the relatively efficient Cuban trawlers have put the local fleet virtually out of business. Much of the Cuban catch is shipped to Cuba for freezing and packaging, and then shipped back to Angola as costly "imported" fish...
GUIDELINES. The tendency of workers to demand big raises to catch up with past inflation and protect themselves against future price boosts, and of companies to pass along all cost increases and add a bit more, makes inflation accelerate. At first Carter contented himself with pleas for restraint and named Robert Strauss as special counsellor on inflation to do some mild jawboning. Strauss's six-month tenure will be remembered mostly for one rueful wisecrack: "The score is inflation 100, Strauss 0." In October, Carter replaced him with CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn and proclaimed formal guidelines with some teeth...
Through her front window Mrs. Myers gave the tree fond glances and occasional nice thoughts. The spruce defied wind, rain, ice, insects, disease. It was 30 ft. tall when it happened to catch the eye of some Park Service men who were roaming round the country in search of a "living" Christmas tree to replace the one that was blown over last winter. (Yet another tree died the year before from Washington's heat.) For $1,500 and a place in history, the Myers blue spruce was sent to serve its country, but not without a parting ritual that...