Word: setups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convoluted mess to Western eyes. At least three different figures could be cited as the price for a barrel of crude. Last week members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting in Vienna, voted (despite two bomb scares that emptied the hall) to do away with this arcane setup and start on Jan. 1 a new one-price system. For most of OPEC'S members, the move means yet another increase in their sky rocketing oil revenues, but this time with a sweetener for customers in the U.S., Europe and Japan; the price will supposedly not be raised...
This windy movie is an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's alltime best-selling chestnuts (called Murder in the Calais Coach in America). The setup is simply that a killing is committed aboard the Orient Express, snowbound in the Yugoslav countryside. The victim is a rather sour American businessman of the usual mysterious origins...
Whatever the specifics of Ford's anti-inflation program, he developed a distinctive approach in enlisting a broad range of citizens in the search for answers. The organizational setup for the war on inflation that Ford outlined in his address had a more-the-merrier look. The President established two new bodies to manage economic policy...
...United Nations has supplanted the Ford Foundation as the leading supplier of money; together they provide more than 80 per cent. The University gives no direct support and charges for overhead expenses. But most HIID personnel have Harvard teaching appointments, and a prime purpose of the new organizational setup is to allow Harvard faculty more chance for constructive and broadening service abroad...
...House uttering homilies that few could dispute, in a language that fewer could even comprehend. (Editor Oliver Jensen was moved to rewrite the Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese: "I haven't checked these figures, but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country...") The private sector was as confusing as the federal. It was the time of ad lingo, when ideas were things that were played by ear, came off the top of the head, were run up flagpoles or got flown by the seat of the pants...