Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Getting the tourists to stay home and mail in their money...
...seem concerned about the climbing cost of money. One night last week, when Volcker arrived at Washington's Kennedy Center for a preview showing of Tom Stoppard's play Night and Day, a woman approached him and said plaintively, "Please, don't let interest rates stay high for too long." Replied the Federal Reserve chairman, as he removed the cellophane from his 20? Antonio y Cleopatra Grenadier cigar: "We're trying our best...
...supply. "They're really horrible," says one Boston department store manager, "and normally things that don't look good don't last." Body-conscious Californians have yet to be seduced by the latest fashion invasion. Explains one 40-year-old sylph: "I worked really hard to stay looking good, and I'm not going to cover it up with baggies." The jeans have been well received among Chicago high schoolers, but older customers still seem to be too timid to go public with the new look...
...author's four dec ades of semirustication on 100 stony acres in Bucks County, Pa. His definition of a gentleman's farm: "An irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city...
...firm would thus have an entry to challenge General Motors' X-body compact cars, which are now being marketed, and the new models that Ford and Chrysler are expected to put into dealers' showrooms. Said AMC Vice President Wilson Sick: "We just couldn't stay in the passenger-car business and meet the federal standards [for pollution control and gas mileage]. But Renault has the technology, it has an excellent product and [it has] the money...