Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worsen the already deepening recession by reducing the amount of cash Americans have for spending on all sorts of nonessentials, ranging from new cars and skiing holidays to Christmas presents and charitable contributions. A typical fuel bill for an oil-heated home, about $650 last year, is expected to climb to between $ 1,060 and $ 1,200 this year. In 1978 the average American worker had to labor for 19 hr. every month of the heating season to pay his fuel-oil bill; this winter he will have to work a walloping 34 hr. per month...
...issue has moved into intensive, private negotiations between Vance and Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Vance must persuade the Kremlin to alter the status quo so that the Ad ministration can climb out of its hole - and Frank Church can climb out of an even deeper one. If Vance succeeds, and the Russians agree to tinker with the command structure, deployment and definition of the brigade, then Americans will have to live with the uncomfortable knowledge that in the overblown Cuban crisis of September 1979, Soviet flexibility rescued the U.S. Government from its own clumsiness. If Vance fails, there is a good...
...Your easy money, your big money, your loyal money is up front," the Rochester fundraiser says. "It's when you get into the trenches--in places like Detroit, and Dallas, and Rochester--that you find out where you really are." Alumni fundraisers and development officials will climb into those trenches for five years starting this fall, and whether local areas like Rochester prove generous or not, it's bound to be a long battle...
...short, the Crimson faces a very long, hard uphill climb as it tries for its first winning season since 1975. By Restic's own estimation, Harvard sits somewhere in the middle of the Ivy League, well behind the "top grouping" of Yale, Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell. It's not exactly an encouraging post position...
According to the plot of the $1.8 million film, which will probably air early next year, two young couples who climb mountains on weekends are caught in an avalanche. One of the men is killed, and the three survivors are trapped on a tiny ledge, with nothing but frigid air and a glacier beneath them. An Army helicopter spots them, but when it angles down for a rescue, it bangs into the side of the mountain and crashes to the ice below...