Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lengthening list of products: oil, steel, meat, sugar, textiles. Such quotas now apply to products that make up 15% to 20% of the consumer price index. They hurt consumers by forcing them to buy more expensive U.S. goods and encouraging American manufacturers to raise prices more than they would dare if they were faced with unrestricted foreign competition...
...world, the wife of Physicist Geoffrey Burbidge, and the explorer of stars, galaxies and quasars. Yet, for all her success, the female half of the scientific team of B² (B square)-as their colleagues call the Burbidges-has faced many of the difficulties usually experienced by women who dare to venture into the male-dominated world of science...
...bitch-Earth Mother act seen previously in Boom and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She can be a good actress and is still a beautiful woman; it is a sorrowful thing to watch her camp it up. O'Brien and Director Brian G. Hutton (Where Eagles Dare} toss dialogue and bits of business her way like zookeepers throwing fish to a performing seal...
...dozen Senators, to knock Nixon out of office. Even such usually cooperative politicians as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker Carl Albert and House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills resent what they consider Nixon's highhandedness with Congress. They want to do him in. But they dare not appear merely as obstructionist, and must give their party a positive congressional record on which to run. They know only too well that Nixon, like Truman, is the kind of gut fighter who would relish giving them hell...
...thin and cracking. All others are dirt roads. There is one hotel and within it the only Western-style restaurant. In addition there are about five Chinese restaurants. When I was there the city's only movie theatre was showing Clint Eastwood in a dubbed version of "Where Eagles Dare...