Word: consist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal announced that the Administration will unveil a new anti-inflation plan this week. It will apparently consist of a set of "principles" that the Administration will urge labor and business to follow in boosting wages and prices, with no numbers indicating how much is too much. Says one top Government economist: "I don't know how the hell it is going to work...
Choir practice, according to Policeman turned Novelist Joseph Wambaugh, is a harness-bull euphemism for what cops do together off duty to relieve the tensions of their enervating jobs. It appears to consist mainly of boozing, wenching and venting gripes against their superiors and the semimilitary system in which they toil. It follows that the participants in these raunchy revels are The Choirboys. The movie of the same title just got in under the New Year's Day wire as 1977's most repulsive release, but Hollywood will have to go some...
...prospects brighten for making big money out of muck, a whole new industry has sprung up. Some firms, such as Wheelabrator-Frye. Grumman Corp. and UOP Inc., have been using technologies that basically consist of burning the trash in specially constructed heavy-duty incinerators to produce steam for electricity and heating. Other companies, including American Can, Raytheon, CEA and Occidental Petroleum, are experimenting with more complex systems that would produce synthetic fuels...
...should not be blended so that the guest has to ask, 'It tastes wonderful, but what is it?' Serve a glass of brut Champagne or kir before dinner-never, never, never martinis. And the meal should not go on too long. My dinners at the royal palace consist of five courses that take little more than an hour...
Brown's central student government, the Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS), consists of 31 students elected at large. Like Princeton's USG, the Brown council's only statutory responsibilities consist of appointing students to the student-faculty committees and distributing funds to undergraduate organizations. Brown's student activities fee of about $25 per student yields about $130,000 in funds for the UCS. The UCS in turn funds about 100 student organizations...