Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equity, and approved one that will hold the return to 14.78%. Its reasoning: truckers should not get a return greater than the average for manufacturers. That ruling is still sending shock waves through the industry, and O'Neal expects a lawsuit over it. Undaunted, he wants to set maximum and minimum charges and within those limits allow truckers to post any rates dictated by competition...
Getting a deregulation bill through Congress may take three years. Prospects are brighter for a 1979 bill giving railroads more freedom to set rates; railmen are for it. Interestingly, O'Neal doubts that rail deregulation will do much good. He fears that it would be used to hike rates, not cut them, and considers trucking deregulation more important. Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell, he is probably right...
...unobtrusive brick warehouse near San Francisco Bay, 75 or more heavyweight property dealers gather together once a month for what they call market day. For hours they huddle and haggle around a group of video monitors set up on the floor of the burgeoning American Real Estate Exchange (AMREX). Across the screens flash capsule descriptions of big-ticket real estate offerings (minimum asking price: $250,000) whose total value on a given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million...
Bassett has been able to avoid surgery entirely in some cases by resorting to a bit of electromagnetic prestidigitation. He attaches a set of electrical coils, like those in a small motor, on the outside of the cast directly around the region of the break. In that way he is able to induce an electrical current within the bone. The treatment requires only a 10-volt portable powerpack, can be operated by the patient at home, and is continued for about the same two to four months as Brighton's method...
...Set honour in one eye and death...