Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partial victory. General Motors, whose price moves are usually followed by the other automakers, offered to trim its increases by more than a third, to an average $59 per car or truck. Ford soon followed suit, offering to roll back its price hike to $59 also...
...trails as the first of 16 possible National Scenic Trails (see map). As yet, these are the only ones that are marked and maintained for public use, but when the system is complete it will be possible to follow the route of Lewis and Clark across the Rockies or hike for 825 miles past Civil War and Revolutionary battle sites near the Potomac. Hardy footsloggers may also be able to trudge the length of the Chisholm Trail-one of the three main cattle routes of the old Southwest-or retrace the exodus of the Mormons from Illinois to Salt Lake...
...roar-and voila!, the new art of sonic environments, "music" to the ears of those who would rather "hear" sound than "listen" to it. Walter (Switched-On Bach) Carlos here presents four tone poems-spring, summer, fall, winter-that give a good approximation of what a year's hike might be like on the Appalachian Trail. Possible uses: mellifluous Muzak for a flower shop or Japanese tearoom, or dozy balm for the pastoral-minded insomniac trapped in the big city...
Those unfamiliar with the field may suspect that magazine publishers are simply crying wolf, that they could, if necessary, pass the extra cost on to readers or advertisers. But in an era of rising costs, many readers are unwilling to absorb a disproportionate hike in price. As every circulation manager can testify, a steep increase in subscription rate invariably means a lowering of circulation. Yet it is the size of their marketplace that permits America's big magazines to assemble large, highly skilled staffs and broad research and technical facilities and to produce quality editorial material at low cost...
...case from state to federal court. The basis of that request was that the restraining order was founded in the federal wage-price freeze. HSWOC argued that the negotiation for higher wages was not in conflict with the terms of the wage-price freeze if the actual wage hike would not go into effect until after the freeze had ceased...