Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beginning Jan. 1, OPEC oil will be available at two prices: $12.08 a bbl. for Saudi or Emirate crude, $12.70 a bbl. for petroleum from the other OPEC countries. The immediate result will probably be chaos in the world oil trade as the big oil companies and consuming nations jockey to buy at the lowest price. But the Saudi action will at least hold the average world oil price below levels that could have precipitated a new global recession...
...room is a sea of drunk and rowdy humanity. Music blares from the stereo as people jockey for position around a fast-emptying keg of beer. No, it is not a clearance sale at the corner bar: this is the scene on many weekends at Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), Harvard's only fraternity...
...signed up Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes for a series of pro-Ford radio commercials in the Midwest, and Dallas Cowboys Coach Tom Landry is plugging the President in Texas. In all, more than 100 "Jocks for Jerry"-ranging from Tennis Star Chris Evert and Skater Peggy Fleming to Jockey Willie Shoemaker and New York Yankee Manager Billy Martin-have lent their name to the President's cause...
...Disco is going live-o. At the start, the focal point-of the average discotheque was that man in the glass booth-the one with the earphones on, the head bobbing rhythmically, the hands leaping adroitly from twin turntables to control sequencers. He was, and still is, the disc jockey, busily programming your dancing pleasure. Did the little lady want to dance the Hustle or the Muscle? Ol' Deejay had a ditty for every kitty and her boogying big daddy as well. One reason for the rise of the deejay was that he came much cheaper than the rock...
Such success has inured window designers and their bosses to the inevitable complaints. Mary Avant, designer for Foley's department store in Houston, put together a weird display called "Black Magic": two male mannequins in black jockey shorts, four females in black evening wear. All the figures were spray-painted black and had limbs suspended apart from the torsos. "A little old lady came in and screamed, 'Oh, God, how horrifying!' " relates Avant. The store manager shrugged off the protest: two days later Foley's had no more of the garments to sell...