Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press. Wiseman is especially fascinated by the community's many patriotic ceremonies. Whether the Zonians are at church or on the tennis court or out for a banquet, they are forever pledging and singing their allegiance to the flag with the fervor of high school students at a pep rally...
...anti-Labor voting pattern apparently solidified in the final hours of a dreary campaign that not even the first television debate between the two major candidates could pep up. Late polls indicated that up to 28% of the voters were undecided which of the competing parties they preferred going into election day. They had been unable to resolve a dilemma central to Israeli politics. On the one hand, Labor was the only government that voters had known, and the party could rightly claim to be the standard-bearer of the socialist, egalitarian ideals of Israel's founders. On the other...
...from 1932 to '50, who led the school to three Associated Press national championships and five undisputed Big Ten titles; of a heart attack; in Laguna Beach, Calif. The "Silver Fox" of football, shy, soft-spoken Bierman preferred reading notes aloud to his players rather than giving them pep talks, and emphasized blocking and tackling rather than passing. His advice to his teams: "Base your plays on standards most likely to defeat the champions," instead of their actual opponents...
...controls, standby controls or even comprehensive wage-price guidelines. Presidential aides promise to have an anti-inflation plan ready in a month or two. The indications are, however, that the Administration will do no more than set a highly general goal, call in labor and business leaders for pep talks and hope that they will restrain wage and price boosts...
...served notice about what should be included in the new budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey will present on March 29. The unions' price for going along with a third year of slim raises: a $4 billion expansionary packet to be allocated by the government to pep up the economy through a large income tax reduction and job-creation plans...