Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was the pained reaction of Alfred Kahn, the Administration's chief price fighter, to the latest inflationary onslaughts. A month after President Carter mounted Stage II in his anti-inflation campaign, prices continue to rise and skepticism about the program's punch continues to spread. Trying to dispel some of the uncertainty, an unsmiling President declared on national television last week: "I think we will be successful in leveling off the rate of inflation and then bringing it down." But, he added, "I'm beginning to see more and more clearly how difficult it will...
...right: the hero is fond of putting on the dog. In Tiffky Doofky (Farrar. Straus & Giroux; $7.95), William Steig shows why his juvenile following equals the Pied Piper's, and how four decades as a New Yorker cartoonist have taught him exactly where and how to pull his punch lines...
Curry, a good ball-handling guard forward, and Wendy Carle, a sharp-shooting forward, each averaged over 11 points a game last season, and can be expected to provide plenty of scoring punch...
...Atlanta Coach Leeman Bennett took note. The Falcons' defense set a modern-day N.F.L. record last year for allowing the fewest points scored, but the offense packed the scoring punch of a geriatrics ward. Having nowhere to go but up, Bennett installed a "Big Ben" play -for desperate situations when the clock was running out. With 19 seconds to go against New Orleans last week, Quarterback Steve Bartkowski called Big Ben. Three receivers rushed downfield, dogged by a battalion of defensive backs. Bartkowski lofted the ball, and what looked like four dozen arms groped for it. Atlanta...
...Mirror, the Star is being printed on underused Express presses in Manchester and distributed only in the North and the Midlands for the moment. Penetration of the rest of England is planned for the spring. Says Star Editor in Chief Derek Jameson: "We've got to punch a hole in the Sun and Mirror market...