Word: hand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increases that have been tacked onto sticker prices of large cars and big engines should more than offset any fines that Washington may hand out. Thus, the cost of compliance with the new regulations-or the fines-ultimately will be picked up by the inflation-weary car buyer...
...anger American farmers more than reports that carpetbagging foreigners are swallowing up U.S. agricultural land from Georgia to California. To hear many farmers and farm-belt politicians tell it, at least half the population of Europe and maybe a few million Arabs and Japanese are storming ashore, moneybags in hand, to buy every spare square inch of topsoil...
NANCY HAYS TEETERS, 48, four months ago became the first woman member of the Federal Reserve Board. She is a seasoned Washington hand. After graduate study in economics at Michigan State, she was an economist at the Fed, became a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy years and put in a stint at the Bureau of the Budget. She was a senior fellow at Brookings in the early '70s, and just before being tapped for the Fed was chief economist for the House Budget Committee...
...risk of ruining his career. A cartoon in the Mexico City newspaper Excélsior last week captured the country's schizophrenia: a government bureaucrat frowns at news of the Pope's visit, then when alone, jumps for joy with his rosary beads in hand...
...toolbox is "very feminine looking" and filled with "things I can use on the road." Most jovially received present: a pound of bacon, presented by reporters to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance before they all landed at Andrews Air Force Base last week. Said the correspondent chosen to hand over the pork, forbidden to both Jews and Muslims: "This gift contains no salt and has been rejected by both parties in the Middle East...