Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this would turn the clock back 35 years, to the days before the nation began leading a highly beneficial world movement toward freer trade. The provisions of the bill are complex, partly because the legislation grew by a process of log rolling rather than by conscious plan. The bill rigidly limits imports of textiles and shoes, for example. Next year they must be held to the 1967-69 average, which would amount to a reduction of at least 30% from current levels; in subsequent years, they could grow only 5% annually. The bill also obliges the President to continue holding...
...theaters and stores. Behind gold-and-white facades are elegantly designed rooms. In addition to free color TV and vibrating bed, Royal Inn rooms typically have white satin bedspreads, deep-pile carpeting, antique-white furniture and a full wall-size mural. Some rooms are equipped with bars, refrigerators and log-burning fireplaces. All Royal Inns have swimming pools, sauna baths and therapy pools at no extra charge. Some, like the year-old Royal Inn-at-the-Wharf in the company's headquarters town, San Diego, have a gymnasium. The Royal Inn planned for Anaheim, Calif., will have a movie...
...Log-Burning Fireplaces. The secret behind the five-year-old empire's paradoxical success is expensive, self-indulgent luxury. "We want to give the guest something more striking and exciting than he left behind," Gagosian explains. "The old motels that offer nothing much more than shelter are being wiped...
Robert Tonis, Chief of the University Police, then begins opening the morning mail while his secretary, Alice McInnis, fixes him his first cup of morning coffee. As he reads the police log of the previous night, one of his six freshman advisees drops by and begins to ask Tonis for counsel on the best way to combat roommate fatigue...
Finally Greg stands stripped down, physically and spiritually naked. Humiliated in body and spirit, he takes out his self-contempt on Kee-the nagging mirror of his own human weakness-and kills him. Thus the log that began as a military record ends as a near-mad confession, a wild wail addressed to the Rescue God ("We cannot save ourselves...