Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause of the rise is growing anxiety among rich people to find ways to shield their wealth from inflation. Says Stanley F. Clark, a director of Sotheby Parke Bernet: "There is no doubt that fine furniture is being bought as an investment...
Treasury is expected to issue a preliminary finding by mid-July. State Department policymakers worry that action penalizing Mexican exporters would be a classic case of myopic policy. White House Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn reckons that the lack of low-cost Mexican produce could add .5% to food prices. Two powerful Floridians on the House Ways and Means Committee, Democrat Sam Gibbons and Republican L.A. Bafalis, have blocked one measure that would have exempted produce from antidumping laws. Now it is up to Treasury to see if the case can be settled so that the U.S. will not find...
...than 80° F in the summer and no higher than 65° F in the winter, and that hot water settings be turned down to 105° F. Should Carter decide to implement the measure this week as planned, workers in some 5 million such buildings would suddenly find themselves deprived of the air-conditioned comfort to which they have become accustomed...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission 's reckoning, some of the responsibility for the near miss at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant lay with control-room personnel: they were not able to cope with a crisis. Just how should reactor operators learn their jobs? To find out, TIME Correspondent Peter Staler visited a nuclear training school near Chicago, where emergencies are programmed into the curriculum. His report...
...sites as either "seaweed" or "clouds." They turned out to be coral reefs, which ripped open the hulls of landing craft. The Bay of Pigs had been chosen partly for its assumed isolation from Castro's defending army. As they churned toward shore, the invaders were startled to find part of the beach bathed in light from huge lamps installed by the Cubans against precisely such a pre-dawn strike. Later, they even discovered two microwave radio towers alongside the bay. Far offshore, the U.S. Navy maneuvered four destroyers in a manner designed to scare Cuban radar operators into...