Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students from UMass-Amherst, UMass-Boston and Boston State College took a different tack, rallying on the Boston Common to protest a 10-per-cent cutback in spending...
...such once standard features as carports and fancy lighting fixtures are now offered as extra-cost options. Except for Chrysler, which plans to continue rebates on leftover 1974 models, Detroit's automakers let their six-week rebate scheme expire last week and began pursuing the less-for-less tack. General Motors, for example, has shaved $219 from the list price of its Olds Omega coupe by making such items as radial tires, day-night rear-view mirror and even the cigarette lighter optional...
...welcome casualty of the decline in tanker rates is the as much as $2 per bbl. premiums that the Algerians and Libyans had been able to tack on to their oil price because of the proximity of their wells to European markets; with the drop in rates they have had to cut their premiums to remain competitive with more distant oil countries. Still, the prime beneficiary of the bust may be the oil-producing states. Long intent on acquiring fleets of supertankers, they may soon be able to do so on the cheap...
...been encouraged to write more gags, create more weird confusions and confrontations between real and fake women. (How about a husband who misses the old-fashioned fights-and the making up? Why not a little less discretion about the sexuality of a grown-up Barbie?) Or perhaps the opposite tack should have been tried. The piece could have been an exercise in pure terror, avoiding overt social comment. The broad early hints about what is going on here would then build realistic suspense...
Presidential hopefuls Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) took a different tack working on the theory that the way to a man's vote is through his stomach. Wherever Gov. Carter went he left little paper cups fulled with Georgia peanuts and a glossy magazine filled with pictures of himself. Jackson had a trailer in the basement of the convention hall where delegates could pick up apples "picked in Washington...