Word: pint
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...inflation" cook the books and obscure the situation with huge state subsidies that hold down prices of certain essentials. The Soviet Union will spend about $31 billion this year to restrain the retail price of food; frozen turkey sells at $1.81 per lb. and milk at 20? a pint. It will also spend $7.5 billion to hold average monthly electricity and heating bills to $4.50 and the monthly rent for a standard three-room apartment...
...efficiency. But a decade of Provo bloodshed, climaxed by the wanton murder of Lord Mountbatten in Southern Ireland last August, has eroded much of the I.R.A.'s support in the largely Catholic Republic. "They started well but now they're Communists," growled a Dublin workman over a pint of Guinness last week. "They don't want Irish unity...
...office where he works (the state happens to be Utah, though not much is made of the fact, and the film's lo cation could just as easily have been Penn sylvania), he shoves papers into his Out box without reading them and swigs vod ka from a pint in his desk drawer. Laura does not call...
LuPone is incendiary as Eva, but she seems to burn with the borrowed fuel of the legend rather than internal charismatic combustion. As Perón, Gunton subtly alternates the wariness of a man walking through a political minefield with the sweaty lust for power engendered by his pint-size Lady Macbeth...
...Harvard's hoopsters have received little support from the Cambridge community. And those fans who do negotiate the IAB stairs) without dropping from the heart strain and altitude) have nothing left in them to root. Where else but at Harvard could the "Bermuda Shoot" and the play of a pint-sized midget-leaguer draw more crowd reaction than an electrifying dunk shot...