Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most benefits would go up no more than 7% annually. All companies, no matter how large or small, would be expected to follow the guidelines. Firms with sales of $250 million or more annually would have to file reports to COWPS showing that their price rises were being kept within the prescribed limits. Offenders would first be warned privately by COWPS. If that did not work, they would be publicly denounced-in extreme cases by Alfred Kahn, who is Carter's chief spear carrier against inflation...
...tenants in Brookline, Mass., that the city last year declared a moratorium on evictions of tenants who refuse to buy. To critics who argue that such conversions are driving out the cash-shy old and young, realtors respond rather unpersuasively that condos and co-ops have stabilized neighborhoods and kept them up by giving the middle class the advantages and responsibilities of ownership. But the big switch to apartment ownership will make it harder for many Americans to find apartments at prices they can afford...
...film work, at least at the pop-fairy-tale level, is the reality principle. The plot is improbable: the girl is left blind by injuries sustained in a bad fall, then begins a long, painful but ultimately successful struggle to regain her sight and skills. Yet the film is kept firmly grounded in plausible, recognizable territory by the realistic detailing in Donald Wrye's direction, the authentic tone of the dialogue and the straightforward work of an excellent cast. Tom Skerritt as the skater's father, reluctant to let her go, and her first coach, Colleen Dewhurst...
...company officer, a masseuse, the owner of a thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment as an anchor to windward. Then they gave...
...guests like Robert Lowell. She had settled down in the Connecticut household of Poet Robert Fitzgerald, his wife Sally and a brood of small children, working on a novel optioned by a New York publisher. Then she was hit with disseminated lupus erythematosus, a severe disease that could be kept at bay only with drugs and a straitened, cautious existence. She went home and wrote as hard as her reduced energy would permit. Two novels and a volume of short stories created a critical stir. In 1964 she was readying a second book of stories for publication when the lupus...