Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election was probably "engineered or guided by the leadership," and the results do not reflect any popular threat to its stability, Patrick G. Maddox, director of External Affairs for the Council on East Asian Studies, said yesterday...
...doing poorly. Leading Detroit's bad news bears again is Chrysler. Fears of buying a car from a company that may go bankrupt and a temporary halt in the rebate campaign combined to sink sales by 44.5% in early November. Chrysler has yard-long waiting lists for the popular front-wheel-drive Omni and Horizon models but cannot make them fast enough...
...state manufactures both high-and low-priced versions of, say, furniture. But, in the old bait-and-switch technique, the cheaper items are often not available. The price of basic bread in Poland has remained officially unchanged for 15 years at 6? per lb.; but newer-style and more popular breads of higher quality that contain honey or bran and cost up to three times as much are also frequently unavailable...
With some exceptions, the price of food and most essentials is indeed low, but there is rarely enough of anything that is popular. It is impossible now to buy detergents in Moscow, and meat is in chronic shortage. Even in summer, fresh fruit and vegetables can be hard to find. Most of these "luxuries," however, are available without long waits at the free markets where farmers sell produce from their private lots for inflated prices. Beef and pork go for around $4.07 per lb. rather than $1.36 in the shops, while potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, oranges and apples...
...China they call it min ge, meaning popular country songs, but the folks who sing it certainly don't go around wearing backless sequined tunics or rhinestone shirts. That fazed Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Chai Zemin not at all as he journeyed down to Nashville to learn about American country music at the source. Chai was feted by the who all's y'all of country. Roy Acuff sang about the Wabash Cannonball. Minnie Pearl taught him square dancin'. Johnny Cash gave the Ambassador his own guitar. Glamorous Barbara Mandrell did an impromptu duet with...