Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other issues include giving employees Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday off and eliminating barrel rolling, the use of sanitation men to "roll" barrels from the backwards to the sidewalks at the homes of elderly and sick...
...House bill is a massive attempt by Democrats to throw the full weight of the U.S. Government against the price-setting power of OPEC and thus roll back the price of petroleum. It would reduce the price of "new" domestic crude (oil in excess of what was produced in 1972) from its present $13 per bbl. to $7.50. Producers in especially high-cost drilling areas, like offshore, would be allowed to charge $8.50 per bbl. The price of "old" domestic crude, which is now frozen at $5.25 per bbl., would be allowed to rise to $7.50 also-but only over...
That line from Captain Fantastic is self-deprecating and ironic. Elton seems to make a deliberate effort to demystify, demythologize what he is doing. "I've always thought rock 'n' roll was people's music," Elton has said. "It's always been a thing everyone should enjoy." He has concentrated on simplifying his sound, especially in the past couple of years. "People buy for sound, melody and sing-along quality," he says...
...person appearances. "Since I'm not your rangy rock idol in skinny leather pants, I wear flamboyant clothes. People shouldn't take the clothes and the dyed hair so seriously. Honestly, it's just a joke. I'm affectionately parodying the rock-'n'-roll business by saying 'Here it is, let's all have a laugh and enjoy ourselves.' " There have been no acid-rock-style riots at his concerts. Somehow, right from the stage, he manages to get across to his audiences the message that he is just kidding...
Financed with plastic-coated petrodollars marked IN OIL WE TRUST, the player seeks to control and exploit all the countries belonging to the same color group-Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, or Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. Aside from the roll of the dice, advances or reverses occur when the would-be oil potentate lands on the space marked "Telex," where a message may order him to return to the Geneva Airport-equivalent to Monopoly's "Go" position-notify him of a crippling tanker strike or tell him to skip ahead to be photographed for a TIME cover...