Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elections, and Palme faces another severe test at the polls in September. In a cunning bid to woo the country's 3 million blue-and white-collar wage earners Palme decided to make companies and self-employed citizens shoulder the soaring cost of Sweden's cradle-to-grave social programs. At the same time, wage earners were allowed to stop contributing to health insurance and pension plans. As a result, their average tax bite has been reduced...
Chambers died on his farm in 1961, swearing that he had spoken the truth. Hiss, who is now a salesman and part-time attorney in New York City, doubtless will go to his grave still protesting his innocence. But Whittaker Chambers' story, which stood up under countless assaults during his life, has not been successfully refuted in the 15 years since his death...
Disputed Findings. The 1974 Trade Act permits quotas when domestic producers can show that imports are causing grave injury to a U.S. industry-and the stainless-and specialty-steel producers have been seriously injured. Domestic mills in 1974 ran at full capacity; last year they operated at 40% of potential. During last year's third quarter, 40% of the 65,000 workers in the industry were idle. The ITC found that imports of four of the five types of steel covered by Ford's order-stainless sheet and strip, bar, plate and alloy tool steel-rose...
...world's best kitchens. It is the notion that people-even the French-can enjoy a memorable meal that contains only 500 calories instead of the 3,000 or more that tradition demands. No longer, as the old adage had it, need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork. The blasphemer is an impish, outgoing, pint-sized ex-pastry chef named Michel Guérard, 42, who has invented la cuisine minceur-the cuisine of slimness...
...Scotch adage goes that a golfer should be aware of no more grass than will cover his own grave and taking the exhortation to heart, Vik decided to enroll in a transcendental meditation course to increase his concentration. "If I can be more well-rested and make fewer mistakes it should help my game," he says...