Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price hikes are merely artfully concealed by an economy in which wages, prices and even the kinds of goods available are set by the state. For instance, the "official" cost of an item can remain stable for years, but the product may be available only on the black (or gray) market and at a substantial premium...
...most effective campaigner for the center-right coalition is Jacques Chirac, 45, the Gaullist leader and Paris mayor. Bouncing out of a Strasbourg hotel at 10 a.m. last week, he shouted to his aides, "Mount your horses!", climbed into a steel-gray Peugeot and led a 15-car caravan on the last leg of what has been a six-month, 30,000-mile-long barnstorming-style campaign all around France. Arriving at 10:30 in the town of Neudorf, he started pumping hands right away and was soon off on a day-long dash that took him to 15 campaign...
This position has sometimes caused him trouble with his church. In The Human Factor, a similar commitment to make one's separate war has catastrophic consequences for Maurice Castle. Outwardly, he is shades of gray: a man of regular habits, careful with money and drink, competent at the office, where he specializes in Africa. The only striking thing about Castle is his wife Sarah. She is a black South African with a young son by a previous encounter. Castle met her while on assignment in the Republic, fell in love and promptly broke the Race Relations Act. With...
...number of theses will be about the same this year as it has been in the past, Linda J. Gray, departmental secretary, said yesterday...
...Andre De Shields is a cat of cool gray nattiness and Ken Page is a slithery streetwise shark with a mi metic gift for Waller's gravelly mocking asides. To give the show its rightful name, "The Joint Is Jumpin...