Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With all these controls, why have prices risen so much faster than expected? One main reason is that market pressures kept prices below the federal ceilings when gas was plentiful. There was price competition among gas stations vying for customers. When supplies diminished, service stations raised the price to the legal maximum limit-an increase that outstripped the OPEC price rise. Beyond that, retailers who sold below the maximum price were allowed to "bank" the difference; now they can legally add that amount to the price they charge for gas. Such are the vagaries of regulation...
...industries have been so immediately and painfully dented by the oil crunch as U.S. automaking. Mainly because of scarce gas and exploding prices, car sales have skidded from an annual rate of about 12 million units in March to roughly 10 million today, a drop of 26% from last year's record mid-June pace. A main contributor to the slump is buyers' snubbing of luxury and even standard models, while the demand for fuel-thrifty small cars is far outstripping Detroit's ability to produce them. Buyers are increasingly turning to Toyotas, Volkswagens and other economically...
...produced in Russia before, during and for ten years after the Revolution of 1917 was the last great efflorescence of the modernist spirit that is still not fully known about. This was partly due to the cold war. The main reason, however, was repression inside the Soviet Union. The work of artists like Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Lyubov Popova, Natalya Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Vladimir Tallin, Kasimir Malevich, Natan Altman, Naum Gabo and scores of others was a collectively ecstatic response to the possibilities of a new world, the Utopia that Lenin called "Marx plus electricity." It was international in range...
...MAIN EVENT...
...only female star in films with the box-office power to do almost anything she wants. That being so, it passeth all understanding why she would want to star in and produce (with her housemate, the distinguished hair stylist Jon Peters) anything as misbegotten as The Main Event...