Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other communities plant their gardens, organize their Little Leagues, crown their beauty queens. North Creek, N.Y., a hamlet 100 miles south of the Canadian border, celebrates the joys of May in its own distinctive fashion-staging a carnival on the nearby Hudson River for people who like to climb into canoes and kayaks and, paddling desperately, race through the rapids.near town...
...chairman's activism was clearly seen in the board's decisions to allow the federal funds rate to rise twice in little more than a week, as well as to lift the discount rate to 7% last week. Interest rates will climb as a result, making Miller a handy target for White House staffers and politicians. Stuart Eizenstat, President Carter's chief domestic affairs adviser, complained that the Reserve's moves on interest rates "aren't ones we have asked for and aren't ones we have applauded." Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, the Senate...
...evidence culled from the recently disenchanted (and just murdered) Abe, one major chunk of the committee's case rests on the report of the bludgeoning. The rest of the questioning deals with the relationship which Kovak's Teamster-clones have enjoyed with the Mafia during the union's meteoric climb in membership, a relationship which entangles the former Lord of Flatbush in a scandal the magnitude and significance of which he cannot quite grasp...
...sipping a modest martini, Rodney Dangerfield mused over his tumultuous climb to the pinnacle of comic prowess...
...church. Next week, the Convair 880, named Lisa Marie for Presley's daughter, will take off on two wings and a prayer for the Dallas Cowboys Texas Stadium and the start of a three-month, 50-state tour. For $300, visitors not only will get to climb aboard and "see where he slept when he visited with friends," but will receive 15 sets of color photos of the plane's interior and twelve kits of Add-A-Tune engine booster...