Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans who bought houses a decade ago are generally much better off than those who saved and delayed. Since the late 1960s, mortgage rates have almost doubled to just over 10%, and the average price of a new house has jumped from $24,600 to $65,700. Many families justly...
In Richgrove, Calif., Steve and Karen Pavich have a combined income of some $23,000 as managers of two family farms totaling nearly 2,000 acres; they also feel in jeopardy. Four years ago, the Paviches bought their John Deere farm tractor for $24,000; eventually it must be replaced...
Elizabeth was more fortunate than most victims of such accidents. An off-duty ambulance volunteer, Vincent Cascio, who happened to be near by, ran over and used a belt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Summoned by a radio cab, Police Sergeant Fred Muehling alertly retrieved the leg. Ambulance...
In the cell, what actually happened once occurs again in flashbacks. It all starts with pigeons, whose habits and instincts seem so much more exotic to Birdy and Al than the drab, Depression-ridden lives of their families. When Birdy falls 100 ft. off a gas tower in pursuit of...
Pam Stone, the only Crimson diver, then continued her winning ways with victories off the one-meter and three-meter boards. Although Stone won convincingly in both events, Harvard cut only one point off Dartmouth's lead. Diving coach John Walker said he is looking for "two more divers of...