Word: reds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the intent of any new red line will be to limit University expansion, and since that process vitally concerns the surrounding neighborhoods, it is imperative that the University involve city officials and residents before and not after a decision is reached...
...House and Senate have already passed by large margins two of the three major Carter recommendations, and will soon begin working out minor differences before sending the legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red tape, legal roadblocks and laws, like the Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives...
...fashion industry has flourished for decades by staying ahead, periodically changing styles to shorten hems or narrow lapels. But Detroit's automakers are sinking knee-deep into red ink, as energy-conscious buyers increasingly switch their taste in cars to lighter, fuel-efficient models. Surprised by the speed of that change, manufacturers cannot turn out enough small autos to satisfy public demand, while outmoded big cars gather dust in dealer back lots. As a result, in the first ten days of November, Big Three sales plummeted 26% from last year's levels...
...years the autumn landscape in the fertile Red River valley of North Dakota and Minnesota was unchanging: acres of wheat extended to a flat skyline broken only by the lonely silhouettes of grain elevators. Now the amber waves are interrupted by broad patches of dark brown, and the horizon is punctuated by tall processing towers. These are signs of the region's hot new cash crop, which is also becoming an important export: the sunflower...
Which of the following words best completes this sentence: "How the ____ roses flush up in the cheeks." Red? Pretty? Yellow? The answer, according to the intelligence testmakers who devised that question more than a decade ago, is "red." But, observes a provocative new tabloid called Testing Digest, red is right "only if the cheek in question is white...