Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians win, "I guess I'll be in the same fix as everyone else," Cox added
Many economists see rebates as a quick fix for the economy. No other form of tax reliefer federal spending, they argue, moves so swiftly into the economic bloodstream. Says Otto Eckstein of Data Resources Inc. and a member of the TIME Board of Economists: "In 1975 we learned that a temporary tax cut lifts retail sales. It was spent fully within two or three months." The Carter forces are counting on the rebates to encourage business to spend more on expansion, since consumer purchasing power will be increased. While the 1976 recovery was sparked by inventory rebuilding and consumer spending...
...hearing last week that his ship carried no LORAN (long-range navigation) equipment. His gyrocompass, he said, was not being used just prior to the accident because it was six degrees off, and the helmsman was steering by magnetic compass. He himself had not had an accurate fix on his position for more than 15 hours. Even if he had known his position, he might still have been in trouble. The water current charts he was using were November's, not December's, an important difference...
...Mesopotamians believed the stars were gods who controlled their destiny. The Sumerians apparently perceived a regularity in the grouping of stars, and used their knowledge of stellar movements to help mark the passage of the seasons and fix the times for planting and harvesting. The Assyrians assumed that the stars determined man's fate, and regarded the movement of planets into various constellations as omens of good or evil...
...ried black by the rest of this album run out to the hardware store for a $1.20 blue lightbulb, to Brattle Sq. florist for six peacock feathers--39 cents each--and find your latest Hawaiian Gold dispensing amigo. Settle down together and listen to Melody. Say. "I'm gonna fix my face, don't you worry I'll be back." Blue, blue--I believe there's a philosophical inquiry into the nature and the consummated state of bluedness (Check it out at the Grolier bookshop). Anyway, watch spiky disaster-drawing peacock tendrils as the light bulb burns cool-blue bare...