Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting, Healey presented a proposal for a wage-restraint policy backed by legal sanctions. Instead of waiting to hear the consensus of his Cabinet as he usually does, Wilson promptly backed Healey. He won the decisive approval of the Cabinet. The only holdout was Employment Minister Michael Foot, the silver-tongued tribune of the unions. Foot was given a face-saving week to try to obtain union agreement. But the Cabinet made it clear that the proposal would be introduced in Parliament whether or not the union leaders accepted...
...Silver Bugs. From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes. It would be hard to find a better stretch of water for the amateur-if not the raw novice. You are never out of sight of land, so navigation is easy. The trade winds blow their dependable 15 knots all day, squalls are brief, and the yacht bowls along through a vast basin of sea, rimmed by a half-circle of blue mountain peaks that runs south to Grenada 60 miles away. Braced against the wheel, refreshed with iced milk punch...
...Silver Spring...
Petropolis is initially intended, it seems, for people who already have oil enough and time. It comes in a green leather briefcase, and the pieces include 34 silver-plated derricks, 14 gold-plated platforms, a minicalculator to compute royalties and interest and a device that signals a predetermined quitting time. The price of the game...
...Isabel is not idle. She does freelance public relations work, and helps her husband Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, 29, known as the Baroncito, promote backgammon in Europe. Recently, the Rosnays spent some time in the Middle East. Arnaud has devised an oil game, Monopoly style, called Petropolis ($790 for silver-plated derricks and gold-plated platforms in a green morocco case). Isabel fell in love with Saudi Arabia: "Women may not be visible, but they are taken care of. Men do all the heavy things. There's none of that 'Carry your own bags, lady.' " Arnaud...