Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average reduction of at least 5% in their overseas purchasing power. In Japan, which ranks second only to Brazil in U.S. mission activity, the drop could run as much as 17%. A spokesman for the biggest U.S. mission board, the Southern Baptists', called devaluation the "worst dollar pinch since the Depression" and estimated an immediate loss in Southern Baptist spending power of $1.5 million...
...perspective it allows. Retelling the essentials of an actual case of heroin smuggling from France into New York. William Friedkin's film concentrates on the facts and mechanics of narcotics detective work, and the intense, long-term efforts of two cops to trace $32 million in heroin and to pinch the underworld business associates making the transaction...
Attorney General John Mitchell has demonstrated that Martha isn't the only stand-up comedian in the family. Called upon to pinch-hit for his sick wife as commentator at a Martha Mitchell Fashion Fiesta in Tempe, Ariz., John wowed the audience of 1,200 with some gags right out of the old Keith-Albee circuit. When a woman sponsor of the show asked him at the microphone. "May I call you John?", he cracked back. "Yes, if I may call you later." Giving the models an appreciative eye: "I don't know about the clothes...
...Inch Pinch. Shrimp lovers in America are not the worst hurt victims of price rise. Japanese consumers are paying dearly for their crush on crustaceans: up to 58? each for jumbo six-inchers. Yet sales are increasing by 20% a year, partly because Japanese personal incomes have been rising...
...area that's been virtually untapped." Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers. He now has a stable of 200 pro basketball, baseball, football and hockey athletes. "I have to pinch myself," he says, "to believe a local attorney like me has a national business like this. It's unbelievable...