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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The situation is wonderful enough, evidently, to make it seem economically sensible to pay $10,000 for several pieces of stained glass put together into a ceiling that might have cost $1,000 a few years ago. ("So it's gotta be worth $20,000 in a coupla years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

The pub goes for a rock-bottom $12,500. No matter. Keep going, keep the average up, aim for $10 million. The first day brings "over $4 million." The three-day total, a satisfied Wilson reports: "upwards of $7½ million." The pub is duly dispatched, to be knocked back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Rarely had a U.S. President seemed so strikingly mired in indecision. Just back from the ineffectual Tokyo summit, Jimmy Carter last week scheduled a major address on energy policy, telling aides that he wanted a "bold new approach." Then, just 30 hours before he was supposed to go before the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Was Speechless | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

If Carter is to pull his presidency out of its nosedive and have a fighting chance of being renominated and re-elected in 1980, he will have to come down from the Catoctin Mountains with a dramatic answer to that question because at week's end the explanation for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Was Speechless | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

In fact, Skylab's history of glitches demonstrated both the futility of taking technological shortcuts and the agility of men working in space to remedy unexpected ailments. When Skylab was launched by a Saturn 5 booster rocket on May 14, 1973, a large section of its meteoroid and heat shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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