Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maloney, who was unaware of the fund cut-off, explained that the girls by and large prefer Tab to costlier beer...
...Americans to spend abroad more than they earn. After the 1971 cheapening of the dollar, the U.S. trade deficit more than doubled, to $6.8 billion last year, because devaluation did not lift exports as much as had been expected and the nation's surging economy attracted more and costlier imports. To prevent a repeat, the U.S. is demanding that Japan and the European Common Market nations buy more and sell less in America. President Nixon is making protectionist mercantilist threats about what he may do if they balk...
Makers of costlier premium California wines praise the Gallos for bringing new wine drinkers to the fold with their inexpensive wines, even though many drinkers damn the pop wines as an insult to cultivated taste. "Ernest Gallo has done more for the industry than any individual alive," says Joe Heitz, whose small winery turns out some of the state's most sophisticated wines. Though Gallo wines have long been something of a joke among wine snobs, lately oenophiles have been pleasantly surprised. Gallo's Pink Chablis recently triumphed over ten costlier competitors in a blind tasting among...
Despite only moderately strong corporate borrowing, U.S. bankers have been steadily edging up their prime rates on loans to businessmen. Higher rates could eventually lead to costlier consumer loans and mortgages, add to inflation and slow the economy by making businessmen more reluctant to borrow. Now members of the Administration's Committee on Interest and Dividends, headed by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, are warning influential bankers in New York City and elsewhere to hold down their prime rate. The message, in some cases delivered by Burns himself: lifting rates now is unnecessary and a little greedy...
...Sisyphus condemned forever to roll a heavy stone up a steep mountain, the American taxpayer has long seemed fated to support indefinitely the ever-costlier needs of government. Now, surprisingly, the burden may be getting a little lighter-at least on the state and local level. For the first time since the late 1940s, state and local governments are beginning to show a collective surplus. Altogether, in this fiscal year, these government units are expected to take in about $ 138 billion-$7 billion to $ 12 billion more than they spend...