Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that we've been sold a bill of goods time and time again and are a littie reluctant to give up what we have worked hard to earn does not make us besotted wastrels...
...demand. With the grounding of the DC-10, United lost 23% of its available seats and American lost 25%. So far, none of their competitors have offered similar discounts, though TWA was embarrassed when the New York Times ran an ad announcing TWA's half-fare coupons. In fact, the airline had prepared the ad only as a contingency measure. TWA quickly announced that the ad was in error because, a spokesman said huffily, half-fare coupons are "crazy and uneconomical...
...that drama unfolds, the only verifiable fact is that lines are forming, and anyone reluctant to join may not get his share. Says Detroit Psychologist Philip Owen: "If an individual sees a line, he's apt to get into it, even if he doesn't know what it's for." Social pressures against overbuying disappear; everyone can hoard in good conscience.' One refrain dates back to World War II: "I'm just stocking up before the hoarders get here...
Russian, in fact, bound them together and eventually broke them apart. This theme is the most consistent in their extended correspondence and reads as though two worldly gentlemen were comparing notes on a shared mistress. Yet between the lines about metrics and grammar grinds a mutual competitiveness...
...both the Soviet and American summiteers hope, Brezhnev has a series of good days this weekend, he and Carter might conduct negotiations that would be-in fact as well as in the parlance of the communiquės-frank, businesslike and useful. But if, as both sides fear, Brezhnev has a relapse, the meeting could be little more than an anticlimactic signing ceremony, tediously stretched out over four days. It would also be a lost, probably last opportunity for these two men, who are meeting for the first time, to thresh out some of their differences in a period...