Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite brew has become really hot. According to an FBI spokesman, "hijackers like to keep up with the times; our biggest headache now is coffee." The FBI knows of 15 hijackings, in which the total take was $1,728,000 worth of beans. All this black (or, if you prefer, cream and sugar) market activity occurred in the Port of New York, which handles nearly half the 2.6 billion pounds of beans the U.S. imports each year. The local FBI hijacking squad is having a tough time cracking the coffee capers. Frets the squad's boss: "One bean looks...
Still, Tyler is a natural storyteller, and the standard that she has set is so high that even her secondary works are compelling. The uninitiated might prefer a smoother introduction to the Tyler style, starting with Celestial Navigation (1974), the prismatic story of an artist with agoraphobia, or Searching for Caleb (1975), a Baltimore family's hunt for a long-missing relative. Most of her books will be available in paperback editions this year. For the impatient, her short stories irregularly appear in magazines (The New Yorker, Redbook, McCall's). Like such writers as John Cheever and Edna...
...plan. The program's proposal to return money collected in higher gas and crude oil prices in the form of tax credits to consumers will, in Okun's view, boost living costs, kick up wage demands and add to the Consumer Price Index. All three members would prefer that the Government use the additional tax revenues to help keep the C.P.I, down-either by paring payroll taxes or by returning the money to states to allow them to lower sales taxes...
...rian official described them -were sent to Shaba to infiltrate enemy lines. The diminutive tribesmen (average height under 5 ft.) were praised by one government newspaper as "formidably efficient units who can move silently and well against the enemy." Although they were issued rifles, most pygmies prefer carrying home-made bows that shoot arrows whose tips are coated with a lethal drug (derived from local plants), which kills the monkeys that they hunt for food. Skeptical foreign correspondents could not resist joking that the rebels had suffered "a bay of pygmies," and that the tiny warriors had skewered the enemy...
...five of the front-line Presidents are basically men of peace and all would far prefer a peaceful transition. [On the other hand] they will not use their influence to call off the armed struggle until they are absolutely certain that majority rule is coming in Rhodesia and that there will be an independent Zimbabwe. They are not going to accept words. They're looking for concrete specific actions. Wherever I went in Africa I met a wall of disbelief about virtually any words that were spoken by Mr. Smith. So I put it to Mr. Smith...