Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeking simply to have the Navajo tribe, and any other tribe share equally and fairly in the wealth of its own resources. The consumer has been getting cheap power for too long, and who pays for it? The Indian people." The Indians do not have the management expertise to develop their own resources, Williams says, but there are other ways of being part owners of these activities. The Navajo tribe just recently signed a huge joint venture uranium exploration agreement with Exxon. The agreement, (the first Indian joint venture agreement) gives the tribe equity shares in the extraction of uranium...
...wheat, cotton and soybeans. To pay for some of their imports, the Chinese have devised "compensation trade" schemes, buying machinery with the products that will eventually roll off assembly lines. In a move that is heretical by Marxist, let alone Maoist, standards, Peking has also authorized capitalist use of cheap Chinese labor. In exchange for modern U.S. equipment for Chinese factories, Peking has concluded agreements with two American firms, which will employ Chinese workers who are paid about $25 a month, to make women's sportswear and men's corduroy suits...
What pushes Same Time, Next Year from silliness into bad taste is the writer's pretentiousness. Not only does he trivialize marriage and sex for cheap one-liners, but he also manages to plunder the social history of three decades. In Slade's hands, even the Viet Nam War is a cue for hokey costume gags and mechanical changes of dramatic pace. The man has no shame...
...clipping of IATA'S wings was a direct if delayed result of the "open skies" policy pursued by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, which in its drive for deregulation encouraged the start of Laker Airways' cut-rate transatlantic Skytrain service as well as the cheap-fare plans that swept the U.S. carriers. The end of administered fares will heat up competition in the briskly growing air-travel market. The IATA carriers' revenues totaled $39.1 billion in 1977, and are expected to climb another 10% this year. But without IATA to coordinate international fare agreements, many lines...
With the teams three aside and open ice cheap, some persistent forechecking paid off for Harvard with just under six minutes...