Word: major
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...into rolling back its catalogue prices by 5%, and last week Giant Food Inc., the Washington, D.C.-based supermarket chain, agreed under Government pressure to reduce prices on a number of items. Following up on a longstanding threat, COWPS also released the name of a company it considered a major price offender, Denver-based Ideal Basic Industries, Inc., one of the nation's largest cementmakers...
...first two days of the negotiations were marked by a stiffening of the Soviet position on some minor issues but by major progress on some more important ones. Gromyko dredged up an old complaint: protective shelters for workmen hardening Minuteman silos at Malmstrom made it impossible for Soviet satellites to distinguish the MIRVs from the non-MIRVs, so the U.S.S.R. might have to insist on treating Malmstrom as an American D-and-P after all. Gromyko also raised for the first time with Vance a number of unresolved issues that had previously been considered secondary and had been dealt with...
...reason for their confidence: on the major unsettled issues, Gromyko seemed to be under instructions to make concessions. The Soviets accepted, once and for all, a freeze on the number of warheads on existing ICBMS at the number already tested, and reaffirmed that the U.S. had the right to put ten warheads...
...Name the four members of the 1962 New York Mets who later became Major League managers...
...holds the Major League record for RBIs by a rookie...