Word: locked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government's intervention in the Teamsters' negotiations, he warned against interference by Carter's arbiters during the U.A.W. talks. Said Fraser: "My advice is that they should stay the hell away and let us settle with the auto companies by ourselves. They will not be welcome. We'll lock the goddamn door...
...psychological time-lock on Viet Nam seems to have expired. 'Books have been tumbling out of typewriters, laden with confessions, accusations and revisionist history. American foreign policy, which for much of the '70s has suffered from a post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate reticence and drift, has grown somewhat more assertive; there are even signs of a backlash of truculence in some quarters...
...Harrisburg, hasty judgments, formed in response either to panic or to glib reassurances that nothing much was amiss, could lock the nation into a misguided energy policy damaging to the health, welfare and productive strength...
Murray Weidenbaum, 52, economist, St. Louis. He has been putting his money into short-term securities like Treasury bills. When interest rates peak and start declining, he plans to shift into three-to-five year Treasury notes and perhaps municipal bonds to lock in the higher rates. Less than one-quarter of his assets are in stocks. Says Weidenbaum: "I have been the typical small investor who gets burned repeatedly. I have had a diversified portfolio of lemons...
...scientists, have found at least 20 neurotransmitters. Each of these chemicals has a unique molecular configuration. As a result, neurotransmitters and any of the chemicals that mimic them-work like keys in a lock. They can only fit into those sites, or receptors, on the nerves that are specifically designed to accept them...