Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Feelers. Even before his Inauguration, Carter put out the first feelers. When steel mills in December raised prices 6% on the flat-rolled metal that goes into autos and appliances, Carter discreetly asked through intermediaries if executives would be willing to reduce the raise. Steelmen refused but got the point for the future. In mid-January, U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar B. Speer visited Bert Lance, who was about to become director of the Office of Management and Budget, to tell him that a raise on tin plate was coming. Lance asked him to return to Washington to talk about...
...return unmasked, later reappearing disguised, only to toss their masks defiantly to the side, and then again appear as dark spirits surrounding and overwhelming the lovers. Lubovitch uses his costume flexibly, allowing the masks to suggest rather than to define possibilities. He realizes the unanticipated. As a voice in flat monotone recites to end Berio's score: "We must collect our thoughts, for the unexpected is always upon us, in our rooms, on the streets, at the door, on a stage...
...There was very good defense," Zivkovic said, "but every time the women made counter-attacks, they missed." Zivkovic added that if the women had scored on "half the attacks," they would have beaten the Engineers. "Misses and flat touches, which score no points," spelled defeat for Radcliffe, he said...
...flow of natural gas in one of the nation's petroleum-richest states was curtailed to heavy industrial users. High winds aggravated the cold. Texans say they use logging chains fastened to stout posts as wind gauges-and this month the chains have been flying flat...
...plastic gloss, canceled the irregular luminosity of the hand-cast glass. "I know what I see," says Bazaine. "Those windows, they were living. I have been looking at them for the past 50 years. Now they have no heart. Once they had depth and modulation; now they are flat, and the light does not change. Before the light would play on them, but now they look like a bad copy of 19th century vi-traux." Moreover, the critics asserted, the plastic film ruined a centuries-old patina that lay under the dirt. "It transforms the stained glass into sample colored...