Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here, two weeks of skiing runs to around $250 (room, meals), with tow tickets and a dozen ski lessons thrown in. Its altitude ensures reliable snow conditions, plus a good six hours of bright sunshine a day (some Alpine resorts, snuggled in steep valleys, get less than three hours of sun), providing plenty of prime tanning time. For the skiing crowd insists on returning home with a tan, even if it is only on faces...
...working conditions, the firm hired non-Teamster drivers. Since then, Bowman trucks have been shot at more than 70 times in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina; four drivers besides Warren have been wounded. More than 20 trucks have been fired at while laboring up a steep grade on U.S. Highway 278 near Piedmont, Ala.; it has come to be known as "Bullet Hill...
...customs guards, wielding a billiard cue in the government press office, or in the chamber of the Philippine Congress, both of whose houses are dominated by the Nacionalista opposition. In his 72-minute State of the Nation address last week, Macapagal said, "It's wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them realize as they grow up that their elders are neither moral nor virtuous." He ended in an appeal, "to set aside-partisanship," and, with tears, told the legislators: "We have been elected under different parties, but we have been elected...
Ford's decision to split its stock was taken with a sharp eye on auto sales charts. Ford shares, issued at $64.50 five years ago when Ford went public, have climbed to a high of $117.50-a price so steep that it discourages purchases by small investors. Meanwhile, the stock of Ford's archrival, General Motors, has been selling briskly at around $55. Since the automakers reckon that a shareholder is likely to buy the car made by the company in which he has invested, Ford was understandably anxious to widen ownership of its stock...
Concrete Assets. Monthly rents range from $150 (for one room) to $1,000 (for a seven-room penthouse), with a year's rent payable in advance. Normally, such steep prices would indicate a seller's market, but in the Lebanese capital, the laws of supply and demand are suspended. Perhaps as many as 35,000 apartments are vacant, yet new buildings keep rising amid what may be the most artificial real estate boom since the days of Florida's wild land speculation...