Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLACE: Oris Rush, Call 354-9385, MUSIC HALL: Nov. 3 and 4: Cut stevens Nov. 10 and 11: The Kinks...
...Otis Rush. Chicago blues guitar, and now that BB King sings with Strings, and Buddy Guy and Junior Wells are recording with the J. Geils Band, there is really no place to hear the real thing anymore. But Joe's Place keeps coming around with the finest Chicago blues available outside the South Side...
...embassy and the presidential palace only deepened the mystery. Saigonese pored over the abbreviated accounts of the talks that were in the tightly controlled press. Rumors flew of an impending coup, of an imminent shakeup of the South Vietnamese army. A report that the government had placed a rush order for 2,500,000 yards of bunting with a Saigon cloth merchant sparked speculation that the rumored cease-fire might really be at hand...
Thin Profits. In a rush to tap the vast consumer market, manufacturers and retailers have slashed prices by as much as $100 per unit. Further price cuts are expected after the Christmas shopping season; some retailers estimate that by next summer the cheaper models will sell for as little as $35 to $40. A price cut of that size could clobber the small companies that brought out the first pocket calculators, since most are mere assemblers and must buy parts from a major supplier...
...labor costs run up to five times higher than those for foreign sailors. And because ships can be built more cheaply in Japan, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Spain-indeed, almost anywhere outside the U.S.-the nation has sunk to 14th in the ranks of shipbuilding countries. Since the huge construction rush in World War II, yards have been kept afloat mainly by repair work and Navy orders. The result was bluntly described to TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan by Maritime Administrator Robert J. Blackwell: "We are faced with a sorely depleted fleet...