Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SENATE: Majority Leader Robert Byrd has strongly endorsed Carter's plan, but he must deal with the worries of some of the staunchest Democrats. Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy, for example, fears that the President's proposals may slip new "loopholes" for business into the tax code. Byrd's own majority whip, Alan Cranston, represents California, the largest gas-guzzling state in the Union, and Cranston has already expressed doubts about the standby gasoline...
...garment in question was a corselette, which earlier generations of women wore for "support"-under a dress. Now, along with the camisole, which used to be the slip's better half, the corselette has gone public and come out on top. Even in staid Boston, Saint Laurent's revealing, sleeveless corselettes have been selling like $140 hotcakes at his Saks Fifth Avenue and Bonwit Teller outlets. Camisoles are just as popular. Says a buyer at Chicago's Marshall Field: "We are selling all we have." In Los Angeles, Designer Lore Caulfield says that demand for her slinky...
...lightweight crews must have wandered back into the wilderness towards Hanover Saturday wondering whether there is not in fact some divine power guiding Harvard's crews to victory week after week. In a series of freak events--helped along by the choppy Charles--three Dartmouth crews watched certain victories slip from their grasp...
...found it ironic that TIME reported on the sex murders of the children in Detroit and the increasing trend toward child pornography-then in People printed the picture of an eleven-year-old girl, Brooke Shields, posing in a pink slip and lipstick, telling about her newest movie role as a preteen prostitute...
...manufacturers have been moved, or at least tempted, to reflect the real or anticipated higher cost of supplies in their own prices. Take James Brownell, vice president of Florida-based Weatherking, Inc., maker of air conditioners: "I have seen in the past several months price increases from my vendors slip upward from five to seven percent. It scares the daylights...