Word: colorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irion's rickety knee has given him an unexpected opportunity to spend his spare time doing more than honing his jump shot. He occasionally serves as a color commentator on WHRB's basketball broadcasts and has assisted Ray Martin coaching the freshman cagers. As far as his duties with the freshman squad go, Irion quips, "I was just trying to help out the big men a little but the problem is they don't have...
...white shoes, symbolical of white supremacy, as well as set himself up as the champion of the farmer against predatory bankers and businessmen whom he saw as locusts devouring the farmer. Finch, however, won over 80 per cent of the black vote in his gubernatorial race. Finch is a color-blind Vardaman, a politician who has managed to unite the poor black and the poor white Mississippians instead of pitting them against one another, and as a result, has tapped a potent human force composed of small Mississippi farmers and an embryonic working class...
...star of the U.S. spy satellite stable is the Lockheed "Big Bird," a 12-ton technological marvel orbiting as high as 250 miles above the earth. Big Bird, 55 ft. long and 10 ft. wide, is equipped with electronic listening equipment along with black-and-white, color and infrared television and still cameras. It is able to make a low orbital pass at an altitude of 90 miles and take extraordinarily detailed photographs, which give U.S. intelligence information on Russian and Chinese harvests as well as clues to secret weapon construction. On one mission over the Soviet Union, Big Bird...
...months, Berkey claimed that it had been grievously damaged by Kodak's alleged monopoly power; Berkey lost $24.2 million in the first nine months of 1977. To the astonishment of many legal experts, the jury agreed, finding that Kodak had monopolized the U.S. market for cameras, film and color-print paper and, to boot, had violated the fair-pricing provisions of the Robinson-Patman...
...average of 40%. The real reduction, however, will be less than 40% because every one of the 98 countries has a long list of industries and products that it wants exempted from the new foreign competition that tariff cuts would bring. The U.S. list includes color television sets, chemicals, shoes and special steels. The Europeans want to protect agriculture, cars, electronics and. like the U.S., shoes and steel. Also, the Europeans demand that the U.S. cut its comparatively high tariffs of 25% to as much as 108% on certain goods-orange juice, men's wool suits and watch bracelets...