Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year from 7.2% to 8%, it maintains that the worst of the price surge is past. Yet President Carter is planning to take a tougher stand against rising prices, something that would go beyond his less than effective voluntary program but would not, the White House insists, include any form of wage-price controls. Carter's top economic advisers will begin poring over various proposals for a "Stage Two" anti-inflationary program this week. None of them are yet firm and as one Administration planner groaned: "All the alternatives are lousy...
...encourages players to switch sides to prevent a victory. Orlick, in his new Cooperative Sports & Games Book, promotes a "tug of peace," in which children are arrayed not in two teams pulling against each other at opposite ends of a single rope, but hauling at various ropes to form stars, triangles and other designs. Orlick has even invented a cooperative version of musical chairs and a tame version of the board game Monopoly, called Community. Says Orlick: "We've become fixated on numerical outcomes of games...
...August and the first week of September. The usual people were in attendance: Grand Slam Candidate Bjorn Borg with a fortune in endorsement insignia to grace his tennis togs; new women's No. 1 Martina Navratilova with a fortune in gold jewelry to adorn her now-winning form; Chris Evert with a list of crack hairdressers for prematch sprucing up; Vitas Gerulaitis with a list of ear-splitting discos for post-match winding down; Evonne Goolagong stayed home with her baby; Jimmy Connors brought his mother along. Only the place was unusual: the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, better known...
...This House of Sky whisper up a big promise. They say, on top of all else, that a real writer is at hand. Yet the bright prospect may, at the outset, seem at odds with the vehicle he has chosen for his first book: a personal memoir. The form, after all, is notorious for snaring even gifted writers in thickets of anecdotage and sentiment...
...runners suffer some hurts from the world's random meanness along with the exotic injuries they inflict on themselves. And a few have been victimized by motorists and other malicious nonrunners. Yet nothing vindicates any image of runners as humanity's special victims -or the most exemplary form of human beings ever. At the rate they are going they may win, by more than a nose, the crown as smuggest...