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...Miss Markof-Belaeff put it, "Mark Holmes is a creep and I'd have had him caned, but my servants were busy...
Coming on top of OPEC's cutbacks, the cartel's price increases have a snowball effect. With supplies tight, retail prices in the U.S. begin edging up to the maximum. Then, when OPEC raises its crude oil charges, the U.S. Government allows the price controlled ceiling itself to creep higher. As the demand for gasoline mounts, the retail price
...figure that if you start out to be No. 2," mused John Kennedy one night in the Oval Office when he was grappling with Nikita Khrushchev over Berlin, "then that is how you are going to end up." Even then, doubts about U.S. capabilities were beginning to creep into the official considerations. On that evening Kennedy walked over to the globe beside his desk, gave it a twirl, and traced with his finger the perimeter of the free world. How long could the U.S. continue to be the principal guardian of that endless frontier? he asked...
History students for years to come may well read about the U.S.-Iranian relationship of the '60s and '70s as the case study of a policy that paralyzed itself. "The Iran dilemma" may even creep into the lexicon of political scientists who, with the benefit of hindsight, conduct post-mortems on the agony that the Carter Administration is now experiencing...
...inflationary creep of Americans into higher tax brackets, which makes tax-deductible convention trips about the only vacations many people can afford any more...