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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members' love of Continental food and fashions) have also begun sporting coiffures of enormous height. Most Englishmen, however, are turning to a more natural look. The cumbersome, bottom-heavy periwig, with its almost waist-length expanse of curls, has long since given way to a proliferation of shorter, more comfortable styles...
...trend seems even more advanced in the Colonies. The bag wig, with its black-silk sack to encase long braids, and the shorter bob wig, with neat rows of curls about the sides of the head, remain popular. But the wigless look, once associated with fashion iconoclasts like Benjamin Franklin, has already been adopted by no less a pacesetter than General Washington...
...money for on-the-job training programs and research assistance to develop promising technologies such as solar energy. Another Carter recommendation: an intriguing plan under which a company that would ordinarily lay off, say, 10% of its employees would instead keep all of them on the payroll for a shorter week−and the Government would share the extra cost...
...sugar canes. This, it is believed, boosts their sucrose content and may raise their yield of raw sugar by as much as 10%. Researchers are also looking into ways of using growth regulators to synchronize the ripening of field crops so that all can be harvested in a shorter time, a money-saving measure that could mean lower food prices for consumers...
Ajootian won the hammer throw on his last toss. "It was a stupid meet," Ajootian said. "The other guys gave it to me." Ajootian's toss of 200 ft. 8 in. was eight feet shorter than his personal best. "I don't think any of us were used to competing in the morning," he said. "Two other entrants had thrown over 200 feet before coming into the meet...