Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substantial amount off sticker prices and still turn a profit. The willingness of dealers to deal is heavily stressed in the companies' ads. Already, however, car buyers are beginning to grumble that in some isolated cases dealers are using the company-rebate promotions as an excuse to dig in and insist on the full list price...
...revolutionary who has an unsettling habit of turning China topsy-turvy every once in a while to prevent bureaucratic ossification and ensure the vitality of what he terms "continuing revolution." Bent on "sweeping up the ghosts and monsters" of privilege and hierarchy, he may order his ministers out to dig irrigation ditches or even launch a campaign like the Cultural Revolution, which convulsed his huge country for three years...
...steep. Many local papers rely heavily on Associated Press and United Press International for national coverage. The A.P.'s Gregory Nokes and U.P.I.'s Gene Carlson dutifully summarize the zigzags of Washington policymaking and the fluctuations of various indicators, but neither wire service often attempts to dig below the surface...
...hustle Boston sportswriters into covering Harvard athletics. (Who cares, after all, about some fencing match or a Radcliffe field hockey game?) That is when obscure nuggets of information like the one he gave Restic are useful: sports reporters are a lazy lot, Matthews knows, and if he can dig up some interesting bit of trivia for them about a Harvard team, they will use it. And that is what Dave Matthews is paid to do: help sportswriters and hype Harvard. He is very good...
...year-to-year rise in the cost of living to 12.1%, the steepest climb since 1947. Over the year, inflation has cut real incomes of wage earners by 5.6%. The price push, said White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, was ample justification for the President's determination to dig in against anything like a "180-degree turn" in policy...