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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Homeowners are using both simple and desperate means to cut oil consumption, everything from buying flannel pajamas and woolen sweaters to closing off rooms .and even whole floors for the duration. In Agawam, Mass., Ernest Bleeck, 73, a retired sales manager, and his wife Mary, 66, spent $2,000 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Fear-of-Freezing Blues | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Thoroughgoing weatherization of a house can chop its energy consumption by anything from 10% to 40%, making the investment pay off in only a few years' time. Even so, the conservation gains are not likely to be enough to offset the latest price increases. For poverty-line people and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Fear-of-Freezing Blues | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Forget about that scene in the movies when the pin-striped boss looks at the usually prim secretary and exclaims, "Why, Miss Smith-Mary-you have taken off your glasses!" Nowadays, it is likely to be a Ms. who is doing the noticing. The woman boss, once a corseted cliche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Executive Sweet | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Managing Editor Ray Heard walked into the paper's newsroom one afternoon last week and delivered the brutal message: after 110 years of business, the Montreal Star (circ. 114,000) had published its last edition. The evening daily had lost $14.6 million and 50,000 readers as the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Star Is Shorn | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

As sound and light shows go, it was a stunner. This time the ageless Pyramids of Giza were bathed in Sinatra as well as lumière. Ol' Blue Eyes, accompanied by Wife Barbara, appeared in Cairo for the first time as part of a three-day bash to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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