Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's re-election prospects have become a much discussed topic in the nation lately. When the subject came up at TIME'S Board of Economists meeting, the response could hardly have encouraged Carter partisans. All seven members present gave the President a less than 50-50 chance of reelection...
Under the plan, labor and management would cooperate through a system of voluntary restraints in which both sides would make sacrifices. With some exceptions, price rises would be held to less than the average of the past two years, while wages and 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...
...much as 50% more than renting the same space. Developers commonly claim that most of the rental tenants elect to buy their apartments rather than move. But, says Gary Lowe, a leader of a consumer group called CHAIN (for California Housing, Action and Information Network), "Certainly in California, less than 5% of renters buy into a condominium. And no wonder. They can't afford...
...turning point was 1927, when he went to live in Paris. There, immersed in the surrealist movement, he was no longer a provincial spectator. And he quickly realized where his contribution to it might lie: not in the exploitation of chance and random effects, like Masson or Ernst, still less in exoticism and neurosis, like Dali, but in hallucinatory ordinariness. One of the obsessions of surrealism was the way inexplicable events intruded into everyday life. With his dry, matter-of-fact technique, Magritte painted things so ordinary that they might have come from a phrase book: an apple, a comb...
...that comes grooved with fish-scale, diamond or chevron patterns to provide both grip and glide. A light flexible boot is attached to the ski by a single toe-binding. A cross-country package complete with touring skis, boots and poles can be had for around $100, considerably less than the $300-to-$500 price tag on a similar downhill ensemble...