Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...root of these woes is inflation, while the collapsing dollar is pushing up prices even more. Not only do companies have to pay higher prices for foreign-made heavy machinery, engineering equipment and other high technology goods that have now replaced oil as the largest single category in the nation's import bill, but individual consumers are also being hurt. In the past year, the price of Volkswagen Rabbits has climbed 12.6%, and Japanese Toyotas are up 13% this year. Rising prices for imports likewise give domestic manufacturers an excuse to raise their own prices. This in turn sends more...
...baseball with style for two grueling years, and brought home the bacon. But Martin felt the same pressure, to a much higher degree, that all real Yankee fans felt all along. I have been a Yankee fan since 1967, and I must admit that it was more fun to root for them when they were losers than it is now. The bitterness that surrounds everything they do--and the gleeful media reaction and pressure that fed on it and built it up--has made rooting for them an ordeal, even it they did win it all last year and come...
Borg scored five aces and 19 outright winners on his whistling serve; Connors was able to break service but once in twelve games. With Connors rocked back on his heels by the Swede's boomers, Borg, who normally takes root at the baseline and whittles away with topspin ground-strokes, moved to the net to volley Jimmy's returns. Until recently, the sight of Borg at the net was as rare as, say, a display of good manners by Ilie Nastase. But Borg charged to the front court frequently and effectively in his semifinal with The Netherlands...
...former Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black moderates, is not working, and for the reason widely forecast: it left the Patriotic Front guerrillas on the outside looking in. Says an adviser to Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the most popular of the black politicians in the interim government: "The root cause of the problem today is that the country has no leader. For 13 years the whites had Smith, and before that there was a succession of strong white leaders. In earlier times, before the Europeans arrived, the blacks had strong chiefs. We don't have four leaders today...
Doing so makes the Administration seem out of step with not only Congress but also general public opinion, especially after the passage of the tax-reducing Jarvis-Gann initiative in California. Says a leading committee staffer on Ways and Means: "Bill Steiger has got a tap root in the ground that's 20 feet long. You might have been able to blast him out six weeks ago, but not now. Where was Carter then?" Complains another Ways and Means official: "Carter has us so confused at this point that the issues are a mess...