Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the sometimes impressive figures printed on weekly pay stubs, the average American worker continues slipping ever further behind inflation in terms of actual buying power. Over the past twelve months his real income, in non-inflated dollars, has steadily declined. Just since spring, inflation has eroded the total compensation of a person earning $20,000 a year by about $1,210. Even 10% pay increases at a time of 13% inflation results in a 3% drop in living standards...
...same time, though, legislators last week took a step that spotlights Washington's weakness on energy policy. The Senate voted to give Congress the power to restrict any future presidential move to limit oil imports. Only last July, the legislators were applauding the President's statement that he would use quotas to ensure that the U.S. would never import more oil than...
...motive power behind this prime-time soap opera, but there is no slighting of the six other deadly sins either -particularly avarice. The ranch house could pass for the Southfork Hilton, and it must take a tanker and a half to fuel all those Mercedes in the driveway. The lovely Ewing ladies flop around the house in designer dresses, and when the good ole boys go hunting, they don't pile into a pickup. They whir away in a helicopter...
...from his post as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War I, Clementine wrote Prime Minister Asquith an anguished protest: "Winston may in your eyes ... have faults but he has the supreme quality which I venture to say very few of your present or future Cabinet possess-the power, the imagination, the deadliness to fight Germany." Her further efforts managed to keep her husband from openly breaking with the powerful Prime Minister. Later, when Winston himself occupied No. 10 Downing Street, she did not hesitate to criticize him. During the worst days of World War II, word...
Women are steadily moving deeper into another once exclusive male domain -power lifting. Pam Meister, 24 and 105 Ibs., holds the current women's dead-lift record with 335 Ibs. Though some of her male colleagues at Gold's gave her a chilly reception, Meister hung tough. "I decided that I had to let them know this wasn't some kind of joke for me," she says, "so I dead-lifted 300 Ibs. three times. Since then it's been downhill...