Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial countries. A further $5.45-a-bbl. boost is likely to siphon an additional $80 billion a year out of the major industrial nations, reducing their citizens' ability to buy food, clothes, houses?indeed, everything except oil. Result: further slowing of growth rates that have only recently begun to pick up (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and increasing unemployment...
...believed that Thorpe would ever again be able to pick up the pieces of what had been a distinguished, indeed brilliant, public life...
...into the windpipe, causing choking. In 1969 Dr. Mario Staffieri of Piacenza, near Milan, Italy, tried a new approach, inspired by a famous case in medical annals. Forty years earlier, a Chicago iceman, suicidally depressed by the loss of his voice after a laryngectomy, had plunged an ice pick into his throat. Instead of dying, he regained the ability to speak; he had accidentally pierced the esophagus wall in a way that gave him a voice again...
Although some Administration spokesmen insist that the U.S. position is not intended to pick a fight with anyone, the internecine squabble has only served to mystify Europeans more than ever. At the least, the nation's allies rightly wonder what the U.S. has to get tough with in the first place. Moral questions aside, military action would be a tactical nightmare. Nor does the nation have much of an economic weapon against OPEC. Cut off grain exports? Argentina or even India could sell much, if not all, of the grain that OPEC needs. Embargo U.S. military equipment sales? France...
When food is not substantial enough, and you want drink, beware of those who check ID's. Gov. Edward J. King has spoken; you have to be 20 years old to imbibe. But with false credentials or a mature visage, you may have your pick of the bars and patrons...