Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some consumer groups advocate that a one-day-a-week beef boycott be organized to resist meat increases, which amounted to 110% at an annual rate for hamburger in the past three months. But beef producers retort that this will only aggravate the long-run shortage by discouraging the building of new beef herds. One Georgia grocery-store manager reports on his customers' switching to cheaper meats: "They're not boycotting beef, they just can't afford...
...confront them and it is painful, but I'm a real sucker for it." Allen did not have a role in Interiors and will not act in his serious movies. "I can act within a certain limited range," he says, but notes that while making Manhattan, he had to resist a "real temptation" to play a sad drunk scene for laughs. "I could never see myself sitting in an analyst's chair in a film, talking about my mother and shock treatments and gradually crying-not if my life depended...
...told TIME: "We must avoid the unpredictability of monetary policy and moderate the swings of interest rates. Last summer there was criticism that if the Federal Reserve tightened money, we would wreck the economy. Now the clamor is the other way, telling us to do more. We must resist those temptations and have more nerve and sense of responsibility to look at the final good for the nation and not to our popularity from week to week...
...show that more women vote Conservative than vote Labor. Somewhat surprisingly, working-class women tend to favor Thatcher more than middle-class women do, and the Tory leader can discuss supermarket prices with a housewife's familiarity. Nevertheless, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week could not resist a quip about former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath's all-out efforts in the campaign. Said he: "It is the first time that the Ancient Mariner has ever gone to the aid of the albatross...
...week's end White and Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) announced a citizens' fund-raising drive to "save our Stuarts," and the two museums agreed to postpone the sale until 1980. Meanwhile the local newspapers could not resist some word slinging of their own. "Free George and Martha!" demanded the Washington Post. Sniffed the Boston Globe: "The proposed deal is akin to, say, selling Faneuil Hall to the state of Arizona as a tourist attraction." The New York Times offered its own cheeky compromise: since New York City is equidistant from the feuding cities, why not let George...