Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wheat at $1.63 per bu. by subsidizing farmers and grain dealers to the tune of nearly $300 million. It even provided the U.S.S.R. with $750 million in credit to make the deal possible. Thus the Soviets made off with one-fourth of the total U.S. wheat crop for a cool $ 1 billion-causing shortages and price rises that are still unchecked. Asked last week about reports that a loaf of bread from American wheat costs less in Moscow than in Washington, D.C., Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz admitted that the U.S. had been "burned" and added: "If we are burned...
Risks of Love. Greene readers, accustomed to the fact that nothing succeeds like failure, will soon realize that Charley Fortnum is one of the author's mysteriously blessed innocents. Plarr, a cool diagnostician and a rational man compulsively armed against the risks of love, just as clearly is Greene's familiar man in Gehenna. Convenient labels, though, do not destroy the extraordinary suspense and subtlety of the book...
People who grow ecstatic over mounds of fresh, sweet raisins floating in cool, creamy, white yogurt will have to bring their own wrinkled fruits to the dining halls early this year, or live without...
...would like to extend the evening news to an hour, admits that the idea has had a cool reception from local CBS stations-which would lose a half-hour of profitable local advertising to the network. "It will come," Cronkite says of hour-long nightly news, but not, he thinks, in the near future...
That line strikes a deep chord of almost mystical belief that is still embodied in today's anti-usury laws, which set ceilings on interest rates. All 50 U.S. states have some form of these laws. In an era when the Government counts on rising interest rates to cool an inflationary economy, they are bothersome anachronisms-or would be, if they were effective. In fact, most are so riddled with exceptions that they apply mostly to mortgage loans. In that field, though, they are causing enough trouble to indicate that Pound's line would be more accurate...