Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure to seek higher growth. Citing "the preoccupying problem of unemployment," French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing last week announced a $1.1 billion infusion of government spending for public works and family allowances, the second stimulative effort this year. Britain's trades unions are pressing Prime Minister James Callaghan for a large "catchup" pay boost and a major expansion program to create jobs. Even wealthy West Germany, which has sorely disappointed the rest of Europe (as well as the Carter Administration) by failing to push very hard on its crucial economic accelerator, may finally be getting...
...pressure of demand on the capacity of the homebuilding industry and an inflexible?indeed shrinking?supply of building lots are pressing up prices. Wartime and postwar babies now starting their own families constitute the prime home-buying group, and their numbers are rising sharply. Between 1970 and 1975, says the M.I.T.-Harvard report, the number of families headed by someone aged 25 to 34 increased almost 18%, to 10.9 million; by 1985 the total is expected to grow 30% more, to 14.1 million...
...some new diseases related to foods. The most conspicuous dietary change in developed countries over the past 75 years has been an alpine increase in the consumption of hard fats, sugar and superrefined foods from which virtually all natural roughage-in nutritional parlance, fiber-has been removed. A prime example: the cottony white bread consumed by most Americans...
...E.D.T.), Soap is already assured of its place in television history. This ABC sitcom, a bubble-headed parody of daytime soap operas, will always be remembered as the show that broke the TV sex barrier by spilling uninhibited promiscuity into the allegedly sacrosanct hours of prime time. Other prime-time shows trade in sex, of course, but Soap is the first to flaunt its carnal knowledge directly for the viewer. Even without the enfilade fire that has preceded its arrival, this series would still be the one sure hit of the new TV season...
...other prime-time contenders...