Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emancipation of the auto industry was the latest step in the Administration's plan to phase out Phase IV on a lingering, piecemeal basis (TIME, Dec. 3). In recent weeks, controls have been lifted from the zinc, lead, cement and fertilizer industries in an attempt to encourage companies to boost production of these scarce items. As a result, prices for these products have shot up, in some cases by 50% or more. But in freeing the carmakers, COLC Chief John Dunlop was reverting to an earlier policy goal: permitting higher prices now in exchange for a modicum of price...
...year-earlier" usage (that is, so much less this month than in December 1972) will unfairly penalize an industry whose project starts are erratically timed, depending on the weather and the availability of workers and contracts. Materials shortages loom too: the manufacture of lime, a key ingredient in cement, requires more energy than any other product made in the U.S., and diesel fuel to run construction machinery is scarce. Economists at a Washington conference sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board predicted a drop in housing starts to 1.5 million next year, from...
Mark, who is both handsome and amiable, could conceivably add some sheen to her image, and the two of them could further cement the royal family's relations with the "county" set-the rich, landed gentry of tweeds, hounds and horses. No one in the palace, however, is hoping for too much. "This is not a bright boy," says one royal-family observer, "but a good, clean English boy." An English boy without, so far, an English title. Already the curious are wondering when the Queen will see fit to elevate Mark Antony Peter Phillips, who is Anne...
...hardly be greater. A man of severely modest tastes and frugal habits, Feisal smokes cigarettes only in private, never drinks and apparently has no leisure-time activities. Islamic law permits polygamy, but he had two wives at one time only briefly in the 1940s, and then only to help cement a political alliance for his father. In all, Feisal has been married four times, divorced twice and widowed once. His present wife of nearly 40 years has borne him four daughters and five sons. The daughters are rarely heard of; the sons, along with three others from previous marriages, were...
...deal is a good example of how separate U.S. economic and political interests can interact to produce a plan beneficial to none of these interests. Through Soviet trade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wanted to reduce domestic grain stockpiles and mildly bolster farm incomes; Kissinger hoped to further cement the U.S.-Soviet political detente. The prospect of establishing Soviet dependence on the U.S. for food probably outweighed, in Kissinger's mind, the seemingly minor economic advantages of a poorly negotiated deal...