Word: pegging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while retaining the absorbent qualities of the old fiber. Nowadays it is usually blended with a cheap grade of cotton to produce such items as bed sheets that feel like percale and towels that can be dyed brilliantly and absorb more water than cotton. Because of Government supports that peg the cheapest cotton at 3210 per lb., rayon enjoys a substantial price advantage, is the cheapest fiber available...
...effective competition and keeping down costs and prices." Despite lingering Tory doubts, Prime Minister Douglas-Home stood firmly behind Heath, who promised that a bill would be ready for Parliament's consideration within a fortnight. "It cannot be in the interests of the consumer," said Douglas-Home, "to peg prices at artificially high levels...
...permit his workers to make payroll contributions to the United Fund-it costs too much time for his clerks to figure out the deductions. Irving has also shown a knack for breaking strikes in the past. But even those who would like to take K. C. Irving down a peg realize that what really hurts this stubborn tycoon is bound also to hurt New Brunswick's fragile economy. New Brunswick would be happy to settle for a compromise-but that word, up to now, has never been a part of K. C. Irving's vocabulary...
...maximum of 25 decibels (compared to 50 on normal LPs). The new tunes are spliced into the standard Muzak library of 7,000 selections, replacing old numbers that are constantly weeded out. This procedure, O'Neill says, has led Muzak to swing a little bit lately-if the Peg O'My Heart Cha Cha can be called swinging...
...Buckley Jr.. editor of the right-wing National Review. After King Features Syndicate sacked Pegler last summer for calling Boss William Randolph Hearst Jr. a "spoiled brat," the two set up the dinner and invited some of the irascible columnist's friends and former colleagues "to tell Peg that we like...