Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visited a few miles away (it had few visitors), and 2) there was an authentic rodeo for the road runners. The rally attracted some 7,500 people and 2,078 motor coaches, many bearing names such as It's a No Bus, Jackass Flats, Big Debt, Stick It Inn and Daddy's Dog House...
...steely crew isn't about to let it go to their heads, though, as they prepare for a crucial home stand. The locals will face the always-tough K.C. Royals, who swept them last weekend, at Fenway today, tormorrow and for a doubleheader on Sunday, but you'd better stick to the tube, 'cause this series has been sold out for quite a while. There should be some seats left for the two-game stint against the rapidly faltering Chicago White Sox on Monday and Tuesday, because the way the Pale Hose have been playing lately they couldn't draw...
...union reportedly moderated its wage demands in return for a pledge from the Postal Service that it would stick to a no-layoff position...
...cracking, for instance, on marketing his Katahdin Hiker, made from peeled alder, which he pays industrious Dover-Foxcroft youngsters 20? a staff for reaping. MacArthur drills a hole for a compass, brands the name on the side and plans to sell each walking stick for $1.95, with a suggested retail price of $3.99. The alternative-vehicle regatta, now in its fifth year, is never far from its sponsor's thoughts. Every June, at MacArthur's urging, riders on two, three or four wheels - variously powered by electricity, methane, charcoal, chicken fat or even sewer gas - race...
Okun puts the chance of an approaching downturn at 55% and urges that carrot-and-stick income tax policies be adopted to encourage labor and management to hold down wage and price raises. Unions and companies that settled for low increases would pay reduced taxes, while those that helped aggravate inflation would suffer tax penalties. Such an approach has been used successfully in Britain, where in the past year and a half inflation has plunged from some 20% to about 8%. But with the Administration's entire tax policy tangled up in Congress, Okun admits that his proposal...