Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least implying more frequent and vigorous Administration jawboning of offenders. The Administration last week did score a preliminary jawboning victory. After President Carter himself and some other officials had denounced as inflationary an average $10.50-a-ton price increase by U.S. Steel, the company announced that it would peel back to be "competitive" with other steelmakers that raised prices only...
...wedge along the southwestern shore of San Francisco Bay are hundreds of the nation's high-technology firms, many of them involved in manufacturing silicon chips, related semiconductor devices and microcomputer-controlled products. At rush hour, cars inch along Highway 101, the valley's main drag, and peel off into the parking lots of well-manicured, one-and two-story buildings with names like Siliconix Inc., Synertek, Advanced Micro Devices, Signetica, and Intel Corp. Enveloped in their mystifying jargon of RAMS and ROMS and bits and bytes, the technicians who work in these factories would seem an alien...
...traumas. My brother arrived with his friend at around 9:30 that night (which is also too late for visitors) and he spent the rest of the evening adjusting himself to life with a petty despot. The old man entertained his guests with instructions on how to peel oranges and tune television sets--not that he would allow anyone to perform either of these operations on his grounds. These were discorses on the theory of peeling and tuning-expanded at length into the logical basis of racial inequalities. He had forced food upon them, then demanded to know why they...
...Things said in haste have been retracted, modified, further explained. Carter uses words as if they were Band-Aids. Chauncey Schmidt, chairman of the Bank of California, complained that the President just did not seem to understand the tremendous impact of his words. Presidential Band-Aids are hard to peel off. Schmidt suggested that Carter talks before he thinks...
...Atlanta is advising U.S. tourists in cholera areas to: 1) drink only bottled water that is carbonated (which makes it acidic enough to kill the bacteria); 2) carry chlorine or iodine disinfectants to treat water where the carbonated variety is unavailable; 3) eat no fruit that anyone else has peeled, but peel it themselves; 4) eat no vegetables or other foods that have not been thoroughly and freshly cooked and served promptly...