Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Continuing a rash of price-gouging moves by many oil nations, Nigeria, the fourth largest producer in the 13-nation OPEC cartel, indicated that it was planning to tack on an export surcharge of perhaps as much as 17%. That advance will add further pressure for a fresh round of inflationary increases early next week, when OPEC ministers plan to meet in Geneva. Indeed, by an ironic White House oversight, Carter is expected the same day to play host to the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords in Washington. Arab hardliners, such as Iraq, Algeria and Libya, could well...
Fully 62% of all U.S. service stations are now self-service operations, but the minority of dealers who offer full service tack on a few cents a gallon for pumping the gas, checking the tires and wiping the windshield. Many station owners still try to hold prices down in order to achieve high volume. "Rocky" Minetti, who manages an Esso station in Pittsburgh, maintained his price of 64.9? per gal. for unleaded right up to the end of last week, while ether stations in his area were charging...
This entire sequence is an unnerving sojourn into the cost of plastic happiness. Unfortunately, the producers felt compelled to tack a happy ending onto this film--an ending which is so satisfying that it doesn't work. But even this cannot kill what has gone before. Dalen so successfully blurs the distinction between the consumer and the seller (something else) that the disquieting aspects of his film just can't get lost. The happy ending elates for a moment but then in light of the rest of the film it's a bogus note. But aside from this, this...
...agriculture is Government farm policy. Pat Benedict complains that it consists of "frustrating contradictions," and he has a point. For 40 years, starting with the New Deal, policy aimed at having farmers restrict production and sell at high Government-supported prices. In 1973-74, Earl Butz tried a new tack: he lobbied through Congress the law under which farmers could no longer unload their crops on the Government, urged them to increase output by planting "fence to fence," and set target prices far below market quotes. He got away with it because rocketing export demand permitted farmers for a year...
...relative success and failure of this year's squad. That's wrong, if for no other reason than it drastically overlooks the injuries of Wayne Moore and Craig Beling, as well as the inspiring play of Ralph Polillio, Rich Horner, Matt Granger, Marco Coric and Bob Woolway. Tack on eight points in the two losses and shelve the remedial officiating in the Cornell and Princeton games, and you've got an undefeated football team...