Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trashers were at it again later the same day when a group of about 500 people marched from Boston and, after eluding Cambridge police, sabotaged a stretch of railroad tracks near MIT and battled police for several hours in the heaviest tear-gasing of the Spring. Taking a different tack, 150 students left for Washington May 13 to attempt to pressure certain swing Congressmen to support legislation...
...tone is typical of Francis. Though his people are regularly, often bizarrely, set upon by musclemen intent on altering the result of a horse race, their dramatically understated encounters somehow do not seem sadistic. Francis' heroes, among other things, have been hung up to freeze in icy tack rooms (Nerve) and had a broken hand rebroken with a poker (Odds Against). Yet they regularly turn up-all grit and sticking plaster-to ride or retaliate, faster than anyone could have suspected. Their sudden recoveries seem convincing partly because Francis, like all steeplechase jockeys, fell regularly, and knows the pain...
...live like kings while members often live in poverty in order to pay their tithes. They maintain that each of the two Armstrongs has elegant homes in Texas, California and England; that Herbert sports a $1,000 watch and bought a $2,000 set of cuff links and tie tack for a Jerusalem trip...
...commission may order an end to "pass-through" profits. At present, businessmen are allowed to pass along to customers not only their increases in costs, but also to tack on their standard profit margins. For example, if the price of steel used in a car goes up $ 10, an automaker can charge the customer an extra $10 plus the company's usual profit margin. The Price Commission could decide to restrict the increase to a flat $ 10. And it may tighten up or eliminate entirely the "term-limit" pricing rule under which a company can raise the cost...
STREET PEOPLE have too often been straw people: embodiments of the various fantasies of the value-judgers of the adult world. If conservatives have made street people into symbols of degeneracy, the Left has done much the same, although Leftish slogans take a different tack...