Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price increase. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani is the unofficial leader of the oil world; his word is powerful. This time, however, he was considerably less argumentative than usual. By the time the first session broke up and the ministers put away their pocket calculators and journeyed in heavily guarded motorcycle caravans to dine at the air-conditioned palace of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the new price had been virtually accepted. "We chewed on those figures a little more," recalled Venezuela's Valentin Hernandez, "but as we reached...
...Bogie came in to bid me good night. He was standing behind me-when suddenly he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive-he was a bit shy-no lunging wolf tactics. He took a worn package of matches out of his pocket and asked me to put my phone number on the back. I did." His love letters too were everything a girl could want...
...least lookers, have thronged stores in Boston and Atlanta; in Dallas, weekend motorists have had to cruise endlessly before finding a vacant space in shopping-center parking lots. But retailers still do not have a feel for how much the public will buy in a season of inflation-pinched pocket books and recession fears. Though some detect a one-last-fling attitude on the part of customers, many merchants have been notably cautious in stocking up, largely because high interest rates make borrowing to carry a large inventory too much of a risk. Says Leonard Lauder, president of Est?...
...have called the shots straight down the line. I am a farmer in the 300-to-400-acre bracket, and it is not enough anymore to work by the sweat of one's brow. The hard work now is pushing a pencil and a pocket calculator. Those who talk about our tractors with air conditioning and radios should know that we who still must drive a tractor must also plan and keep up with the changing markets on our radios...
Running the offenses are young quarterbacks who are not afraid of carrying the ball themselves. The league that once considered Fran Tarkenton a heretic for deserting his protective pocket of blockers now boasts quarterbacks who routinely gallop upfield. New England's Steve Grogan fancies the end run; Baltimore's Jones likes it up the middle...