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Word: standard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will spend about $31 billion this year to restrain the retail price of food; frozen turkey sells at $1.81 per lb. and milk at 20? a pint. It will also spend $7.5 billion to hold average monthly electricity and heating bills to $4.50 and the monthly rent for a standard three-room apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How Communists Beat Inflation | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...catch is that MIC policyholders will be charged higher deductibles on claims-$500 on the majority of crashes instead of the standard $200. Rates for the accident-prone rise steeply. But that is the whole idea: to shift more of the financial burden to those responsible for wrecks. Adults and adolescents alike will have an even stronger incentive to slow down and stay sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Premium Parity | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Four B&G workers said last week they routinely put asbestos waste in unlabeled garbage bags, violating another OSHA standard...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: B&G Asbestos Safety Program Will Include More Employees | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...delivering a stream of shale into a giant funnel. Some 40 miles south, at Logan's Wash, Occidental Petroleum miners have cut two mine faces into the sides of a shale mountain. Farther northwest lies another tract of shale land soon to be developed by Gulf Oil and Standard of Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Tapping the Riches of Shale | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...internationalist in Washington that he had always hoped to be and would probably have approved of Kissinger's decision to approach the FBI as the proper way to protect Harvard from potential communist encroachment. David Landau '72 writes in Kissinger: The Uses of Power, that even measured against the standard of the early McCarthy era, Elliot "was a violent Cold Warrior, one who would not tolerate the slightest deviation from the path of unrelenting struggle against the Stalinist Terror." Most Harvard faculty and administrators who knew him back then agree that if Kissinger consulted with anyone before notifying...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Kissinger, Harvard And the FBI | 11/16/1979 | See Source »

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