Word: starters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starter, the new government has canceled Brazil's $200 million-a-year wheat and petroleum import subsidies, cut the national budget 30%, and is promoting a bill that will create a National Monetary Council for stabilizing finance and trade policy. It also intends to cut back commercial credit for businessmen, hold down those famous 100% wage boosts Goulart liked to pass out to unions, expand exports by offering credit insurance...
GEORGE RUSSELL SEXTET: THE OUTER VIEW (Riverside). These six do surgery on only five songs and have You Are My Sunshine stretched out on the operating table for twelve minutes. The theme, of course, is only a starter for Don Ellis' questing trumpet, Paul Plummer's poetic tenor sax and Composer-Arranger Russell's contemplative piano. They cut the melody into ribbons that swirl together in unlikely harmonies, but there is a cool logic and distant beauty all the same...
Challenge matches have shuffled the lineup and general examinations have removed one starter, but the varsity tennis team still ought to beat Williams today...
Asseyev's Feb. 29 suicide attempt caused considerable excitement, as an MTA starter ran from his booth and stopped the Soviet student a few feet from the edge of the platform. Police reports since then have been confidential, and this brought speculation that the case has serious international repercussions. This theory has been ruled out by the State Department, however...
Traditional Step. The Johnson Administration can do little to lower retail prices, but it will try to close part of the gap between them and livestock prices, as a starter has ordered more beef served in school lunch programs and more distributed to needy families. Cattlemen meanwhile are taking a traditional step toward the same end: an estimated 2,000,000 head are being held back from market. But a paradox lies here too. Bad weather or economic pinches could force cattlemen to dump the held-back cattle, thus tumbling prices even lower than they...