Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaty his major issue, he abolished political parties, seized control of the press, drove opponents into exile and saw his once prosperous economy falter. Latin American and indeed world pressures began to build on the U.S. In 1974 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and then Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Tack signed a "statement of understanding" that renewed serious negotiations...
Preston Madden of Hamburg Place ushered prospective buyers past ferns and bunting into an air-conditioned, mirrored tack room. As butlers proffered champagne from silver trays, Madden screened footage of his past turf champions. Tom Gentry, the showman of the bluegrass, hawked his yearlings like a carnival huckster, giving away Tom Gentry T shirts, Tom Gentry hats and Tom Gentry Slush, a rum and lime concoction. Seth Hancock, breeder for Claiborne Farm, conducted business more sedately. His yearlings were paraded six at a time before sharp-eyed trainers searching for tiny flaws: a foot that was slightly crooked, a back...
...President also threw his weight behind two other pro-union measures. At his midweek press conference. Carter announced that he would support an increase in the minimum wage from the current $2.30 to $2.65. effective next Jan. 1. The proposal, made by the House Education and Labor Committee, would tack an automatic escalator clause onto the minimum wage law for the first time. It would gradually lift the minimum wage to 53% of the average straight-time earnings of manufacturing workers by Jan. 1. 1980-or to an estimated $3.15 an hour. This represents a considerable Carter compromise. Originally...
...meets were scheduled on the opposite coast for the same weekend, and the sprinter had been offered round-trip plane tickets by both meet directors-one of which he could cash in as an informal subsidy. So the promoter decided that to clinch the deal it was necessary to tack on a sliding scale of incentive payments for any records the runner might...
...shouting over the music, fingering non-existent guitar licks. "Great music isn't it, just the greatest, the greatest." Bell nodded his assent, smiling mysteriously. Camfort stopped, puzzled; Bell was playing a game with him, and wouldn't tell him the rules, and so he would try a different tack. "Got any smokes, Belladonna," Bell furiously but politely shook his head. He had gobbled six of the little time stoppers, Big Ben's little helpers, as it were, and it was silently, side-splittingly funny that his roommate talked and walked so slowwwwllyyy. Camfort saw now the methedrine stacked...