Word: skyhigh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soften the impact of harsh policies. Hieu describes what he termed the government's strategy for preparing the public for the nationalization of key industries. "If they want to monopolize the fish industry in Saigon, they order the fishermen not to send their fish to Saigon. The prices shoot skyhigh, and the government launches a propaganda campaign blaming the capitalist monopoly fish industry and then they take it over," Hieu says. Hieu also charged that the Hanoi government periodically publicly executes scapegoats to combat public uproar over the prohibitive prices on the black market...
...those on the lunar rover to cope with the moon's dusty surface. Both astronauts would pedal while sitting; with a load of scientific gear, they could easily travel several kilometers without unduly exerting themselves. Best of all, while the cost of getting to the moon may be skyhigh, moving around on it should be dust-cheap...
...market, and reaped a handsome profit as prices rose. The CFTC appears to fear a similar coup in soybeans. It charged that if the Hunts held on to all their positions, "price distortion or manipulation activity ... could cause serious injury to the American public," presumably by forcing soybean prices skyhigh. Nelson Bunker Hunt views the action against him as a political maneuver. Snorts Hunt: "Dozens of families trade like this. If your name is Hunt and you're from Dallas, then it must be a conspiracy...
...this method could accomplish a redistribution of income from rich to poor that even George McGovern might approve. But there might still be a true black market alongside the white one. Counterfeiting of coupons might still be profitable if the resale supply of legitimate coupons was tight and prices skyhigh...
...County Recorder J. Wylie Carlyle noticed something unusual: the real buyers were unnamed. The buyer of record was the Title Insurance & Trust Co. of Los Angeles, which was the Nixons' trustee. A rich or famous buyer may follow this procedure to avoid boosting the prices of nearby property skyhigh. But, says Carlyle, "I've seen only one other deed like it, and that was for Disneyland...