Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme of partnership set the tone for the talks between Ford and Tanaka in the ornate gilt, cream and pink marble Rising Sun Room of the Akasaka Palace. Their discussions touched on detente, China, the Middle East and Japanese sensitivities about nuclear weapons but focused principally on energy and food. In the final communique, the two leaders promised that their countries would cooperate on oil policy -an agreement that appeared to override Japan's previous reluctance to act in any way that might offend the Arab oil producers. But the statement did not commit Japan to joining the consumers...
Detroit is supersensitive to auto layoffs; a Wayne State University study shows that for every pink-slipped auto worker, another 1.5 employees in local supply industries would eventually lose their jobs. The same study reports that for every $1 fluctuation in national car and truck sales, Detroit residents gain -or lose-300. The head of a company that deals with all the major Detroit-area manufacturers says that even the biggest ones are holding off payment for services. Says he: "I've never had to wait so long for my money-ever...
...birds and otherwise stole out of Harvard environs with a half-credulous awareness that this trip home might be their last before Arabs, oil conglomerates and energy crises shut down America. Headlines and eyewitness news, everywhere one turned, a sinister image was forming of olive-skinned men in hoods, pink-cheeked men in gray suits and straight-faced Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, and his computer, all working together to shut down the planes and gas stations and steam heat in Harvard Houses. The 1973-74 energy crunch didn't leave Harvard's children stranded or shivering...
...along the balance beam with almost reptilian poise, the diminutive gymnast spends her time watching TV, preferably Porky Pig. And at her insistence, the team's first stop after reaching Los Angeles (before they even checked into their hotel) was Disneyland. This is just a phase. Sporting a pink WE LOVE OLGA button, Olga allowed that she had no boy friend now. She added with a cheeky grin: "But I will have...
...said Messing was "wearing ladies' clogs, pink dungarees and an afro hairdo long before they became fashionable...