Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Politics of Tobacco" [Aug. 21] is a prime example of the non-leadership Jimmy Carter brings to the U.S. While he's off courting votes among the North Carolina tobacco farmers and claiming back in Washington that his Administration is behind preventive medicine, millions of cigarette smokers are puffing their way to the grave...
...strengthen the dollar and weaken inflation, the Federal Reserve Board may be forced to raise interest rates still more. The cost of short-term credit has already been kicked up nearly 20% since January; last week major banks lifted their prime lending rate to businessmen a quarter of a point to 9¼%- the highest level since February 1975. A really tight credit squeeze could tip the economy into recession, but right now the outlook is for interest rates to peak later this year and begin to drift down...
Whatever happens to it, the Germans' approach is another evidence of the craving of foreign capital for a haven in the safe, solid U.S. Deutsche Bank viewed the W.T.C. as a sound investment in prime U.S. urban real estate, a market in which it already has some experience. During the past two years, with other German banks, Deutsche Bank has bought Pennzoil Place and Shell Oil Tower in Houston...
...will carry up to 195 passengers on short-to medium-range flights. Simultaneously the British government, which owns the two companies, was being pressed by the French-German-Spanish owners of Airbus Industrie to join them instead in making a narrow-bodied Airbus. Playing a kind of commercial Solomon, Prime Minister James Callaghan tried to win for Britain a piece of both projects...
Edward Heath, former British Prime Minister and now a conductor of the European Community Youth Orchestra, when asked to compare his two careers: "At least the conductor and the orchestra are trying to reach the same destination, which isn't always the case in politics...