Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in The Game, with Larry Brown lined up as QB and Buckley at slotback, the quarterback took the hike, pitched to the slotback, who pumped to the split end, and then threw to the quarterback, who was now a receiver and had scampered out into the left flat, all for an incompletion...
...increase in the average price of oil imported by major consuming nations-enough to put a drag on the global economy. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing estimated that OPEC price boosts since 1973 have hit the French consumer as hard as a 50% hike in income taxes would have, and asked bitterly, "What would happen to a government that decided to increase income taxes 50% and then transferred the money to a foreign country...
...orienteering meet most closely resembles an automobile rally−without the cars. In a typical contest, organizers lay out several courses, ranging from a mile-long hike over easy trails to six-mile scrambles across streams, swamps and hills. Contestants, either alone or in teams, leave the starting point at fixed intervals, moving through the quiet beauty of the forest toward unseen checkpoints marked by map coordinates. For many, it is just a "hike with a purpose," an opportunity to stroll or picnic. For others, it is a madcap race in which speed afoot is as important as accuracy...
...some surprisingly caustic remarks about his OPEC colleagues. How did he feel about breaking ranks? "Is it fair for all OPEC to get together to decide the price of Saudi crude? Is it fair for others to decide against our will?" What about OPEC arguments that a big oil hike is justified by inflation in the prices of Western goods that oil producers buy? "The OPEC figure of a 26% rise in prices of goods we import from the West is not correct. If you take the [International Monetary Fund] index, the rate of such inflation is less than...
...OPEC boost would intensify British inflation, already nearly 15%, and put more pressure on the sinking pound. Oil imports in the first nine months of 1976 added a net $5.5 billion to Italy's trade deficits, 45% more than a year earlier. To pay for another oil hike, Italy would have to cut other imports sharply and borrow additional cash from its trading partners and the International Monetary Fund. In Japan, which imports almost every drop of its oil, government and private economists figure that national production will rise 7% next year-if there is no OPEC price increase...