Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean C. Jackson Grayson's Price Commission lowered the average yearly increase allowed large firms under its Term Limit Pricing rule from 2% to 1.8%. Grayson also properly chastised Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who had praised the present high meat prices before a cattlemen's group a few days earlier. Butz's speech was "damaging to the stabilization program," bristled Grayson. "Everyone must work to hold prices down, not push prices up as Secretary Butz is advocating...
...Earl Cobb, for one, says the course made him a more understanding listener. It also gave him an idea for a technique that is probably unique in the annals of therapy: to encourage taciturn but obviously troubled customers to open up, Cobb brings his pet fox up from the basement. "A fox is not a very common thing," he explains. "People want to find out about it, so you start telling them about the fox and then they just start talking about their problems...
Wooing Vote. The Consumer Price Index in January climbed by a seasonally adjusted .3%, a middling rise. But meat prices, a matter of prime concern to consumers, jumped 1.5%. Retail food prices for 1972 are expected to increase 4%. Wooing the farm vote, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz recently told audiences of farmers: "We are trying to get farm prices up-and you haven't seen anything...
...would consider presenting rough draft passages of a novel with notations even before it is published? Imagine Robert Frost publishing those terrible first drafts of his famous poems before the poems themselves came out. "I hold it very indecent that a man should publish his meditations," said the Earl of Shaftesbury. "These are the froth and scum of writing, which should be unburdened in private and consigned to oblivion, before the writer comes before the world as good company...
...James Earl Ray, the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr., is spending 30 days in a disciplinary cell to contemplate his losing ways. Ray's latest fiasco: a botched attempt to cut short his 99-year sentence at Tennessee's Brushy Mountain Penitentiary by carving a hole through the ceiling of a room near the auditorium. Last year he tried to make it through a steam tunnel which, unsurprisingly, turned...