Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life and fine print grow more complicated, all those champions of the downtrodden, avengers of the defrauded and writers of wrongs find themselves very much in demand. Last year Action Line columns answered more than 2 million complaints. Action Lines unmask unscrupulous repairpersons, humble haughty bureaucrats, chasten heartless computers, stay the hands of overeager credit companies, track lost merchandise to the ends of the zip-coded universe and locate spare parts for Polish-built refrigerators. They are the new Miss Lonelyhearts, multiplied many times over. As White House Consumer Adviser Esther Peterson told them, "You are a growth industry...
...have proven secondaries, but Harvard must stymie Cornell's multiple-I running game for a surefire victory. Crimson captain Steve Potysman says, "once they settle down they run right at you." Restic adds, "if Holland carries the ball 30 to 40 times it will be hard for us to stay with them...
CORNELL at HARVARD--Before this year, the Big Red had won just four of its last 30 games. In three games this year, Bob Blackman's squad has already won half that many. The total should stay the same today. Besides Harvard center, Dave Scheper, said he's beat me up if I picked Cornell. Harvard 16, Cornell...
...billion to $600 billion in surplus dollars floating around foreign money markets -nobody knows the exact total-and Washington could not begin to buy them all. But if the U.S. expressed willingness and made funds available to buy huge amounts, speculators would conclude that the price would stay up, and so they would not sell their dollars. In short, a war chest to defend the dollar, coupled with a strong determination to use it if necessary, would act much like a nuclear deterrent: the more impressive it is, the less likely it will ever need to be used...
...families that inhabit Ne'ot Sinai, one of 15 communities along the Mediterranean coast. The Ne'ot Sinai group was particularly angry with Begin: during a visit last year, he asked them to save a retirement cottage for him in the oasis. "We're going to stay here, no matter what," said Ofira Seibert, a Ne'ot Sinai pioneer. "We do not accept this as Egyptian territory. This is Israeli territory; it says so in the Bible. We didn't conquer anything. We just took back what was ours...