Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...global economic issues have generated so much vitriol as the Soviet Union's drive to win more of the multibillion-dollar business of hauling seaborne international cargo. Since the early 1970s, the Soviets have raised havoc in international shipping conferences-cartels that fix rates on virtually every commodity and allocate cargoes-by cutting rates from 5% to 69%. They are gaining an ever increasing share of trade on lucrative routes, such as those across the North Atlantic and to and from the Far East and East Africa. On U.S. routes alone, the annual dollar value of Soviet-hauled trade...
Today Dreyfuss can have almost any part he wants. He is currently playing a hookah-smoking private eye in Jeremy Kagan's The Big Fix, and next spring he will portray a ruthless director in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. With what sounds almost like resignation, he admits to being content. Friends say that Lucinda, a Puerto Rican who worked as a TV researcher, has brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous...
...redhead in a uniform will always get you horny with her hairnet and those white shoes and a name tag and a hat she drove like andy granatelli and knew how to fix a flat...
...even bother to fix the vertical hold during the fourth quarter of a tied ballgame...
...what. Unless your uncle's name is Steinbronner or O'Malley, you will have to watch it the same way everyone else does...on the tube. That means bad reception and Howard Cosell, no telling which is worse, but I would rather fix the slipping vertical hold a hundred times than listen to one word from the mouth that roars. If you can stand him, Cosell continues his crustaceous commentary this Friday at 8 p.m. on Channel 5. Saturday and Sunday (if necessary) will feature afternoon games beginning at 4 p.m. The final games from Yankee stadium will interrupt prime...