Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valuable fir trees. For the past two years, Daterman and his colleagues at the Forest Service have been setting out forest traps baited with a man-made duplicate of the female moth's chemical sex-attractant pheromone. The object: to lure males, who can sniff out a mere trace of the powerful stuff from two miles away...
...recently as a decade ago, the whole idea of directly tapping solar energy was considered by many to be little more than a form of permissible idiocy, a harmless pursuit for a handful of engineers and tinkerers. Only six years ago, the Federal Government budgeted a mere $1 million for solar-energy research; this year the sum will be almost $180 million...
...Although Allen and Mostel turn in excellent performances, neither are quite right for their roles. Allen particularly does not fit in a movie of this type. He is the classic nebbish, but the very qualities that contribute to his comic genius detract from the solemnity of the film. The mere sight of his face and sound of his voice, regardless of the unhumorous context, provokes laughter, interjecting unintentional but damaging levity...
...Electric Co., for example, disclosed last week that after Thanksgiving it will start laying off 8,500 of the 13,300 hourly workers in its Appliance Park complex at Louisville, Ky. Though no one can yet predict how strong Christmas buying will be, retail sales in October rose a mere .3%, to $54.1 billion-less than $100 million above the level of June...
...would call corporate and labor leaders together to work out voluntary guidelines for pay and price boosts. But businessmen have not forgotten that early in the campaign Carter spoke of requesting stand-by authority to impose wage-price controls, which executives abhor. Says Raymond Herzog, president of 3M: "The mere mention of federal intervention causes companies to raise their prices in anticipation. Inflation would spiral. Carter should go on the record to stop these rumors...