Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concerned about the R. and D. retreat, President Carter has ordered a Cabinet-level task force headed by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps to give him some recommendations for turning it around by next June. One of the task force's main goals: to find ways to reduce the discouraging effects of Government regulation...
...forms has become all too frequent over the past three years in the production fields and exploration areas of the South and Southwest that are the heart of what petroleum people call the U.S. Oil Patch. Spurred by the rise in oil prices, drilling activity has reached its highest level since the '50s, resulting in an acute shortage of pipe, drill bits and other oil-exploring and -producing equipment. Orders for derricks can take as much as 18 months to fill. Buyer impatience has spawned a burgeoning subindustry: a booming black market for stolen oil equipment, the value of which...
...matters into her own hands, staggering, grimacing, screeching, gets her full share of laughs. But given the rather muted surroundings, perhaps Guillermin would have been wise to sit on her if he couldn't find a way to bring the rest of the cast up to her dotty level...
...often was Irish Cap, a big 14-year-old bay that had carried him to success in both the 1974 Burghley competition and the 1976 Olympics, where he had been a member of the winning team. Says Davidson of the unremitting work: "If you play any sport on this level, you have to give it all you have...
Most middle-level Americans divide that whole in three parts: the rich, the poor and "the rest of us." Coleman and Rainwater prefer a seven-layer view. From the top: the old rich of aristocratic family name; the new rich, or success elite; the college-educated professional and managerial class; Middle Americans of comfortable living standard; Middle Americans just getting along; a lower class who are poor but working; and a non-working welfare class...