Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper clips, that almost any increase in its price becomes an economic and political gamble: Will the market take it? And will the White House hold still? Last week six big steel companies decided to run the risk. They announced increases of 6%, to take effect this week, on flat-rolled products, which go into autos and appliances and consume almost 40% of industry shipments. Their move brought hand-wringing from the outgoing Ford Administration and raised an immediate economic question of whether the increase would stick...
...earlier one did not. Last summer the mills scheduled a 4.5% rise on flat-rolled, effective Oct. 1. But demand then was weak. Some steelmakers apparently told favored customers they could continue to buy steel at the old prices; Armco then delayed its rise, U.S. Steel canceled the boost and the rest of the industry fell into line...
SEAN O'CASEY'S play, The Plough and the Stars, begins with a lock on a door. In a Dublin tenement, Fluther Good has just installed the new lock on the flat occupied by Nora and Jack Clitheroe. Nora's lock is resented by her neighbors, Bessie Burgess (upstairs) and Mrs. Gogan, the charwoman who lives below. But the newlywed Mrs. Clitheroe persists in her efforts to shut out the slum around her; when the play opens, in November 1915, she has almost created an island of grace and quiet in the middle of the dirt and violence. Nora...
...Casey sees the Plough and Stars (the flag of the IRA) from the window of a Dublin flat, and through women's eyes. This view of the Easter Revolution was cynical enough to cause riots when it first was staged. In O'Casey's portrayal, the Irishmen in the Citizen Army died shitting with fear; their wives went mad trying to keep them safe at home. The only heroes in The Plough and Stars are those who neither fight nor spout rhetoric: Fluther Good, the working man whose honest dignity defies the British to do their worst, though...
Raymond D. Adams, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology, said yesterday a flat EEG reading is "a very bad prognosis if the patient is in a coma as a result of cardiac arrest or suffocation...