Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another student says she did not like the idea of an issue she knew little about "being tacked on the tail end of one I obviously support: divestiture...
...notes that a "retirement effect" induces people to retire early or work less to receive more benefits. He says that, although there is a lot of concern about how social security should be financed, "if social security induces people to retire early, it's sort of chasing its own tail in trying to finance it." He, like other researchers at the bureau, is building a simulation model and will then input data on population and labor sources, as well as behavioral estimates...
...best hopes are that the Government would not allow the industry to be dominated by GM and Ford alone, and that lacocca somehow will improve the company's shabby planning and marketing. Says Sperlich: "We are looking to old General Patton to kick a lot of tail...
...have been using more sophisticated dredges to scoop up lobsters. In all too many cases, young females are removed before they have had a chance to reproduce; often they are taken under the typical state legal limit of 3 3/16 in. from eye socket to the beginning of the tail, a restraint that may still be too lax, according to scientists. The result: a dwindling lobster catch even in such once fertile waters as those off Maine...
...even though the monkfish, or Lophius americanus, is such an ugly American that fish stores ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When it's mixed with lobster, "the lobster flavor penetrates the monkfish, and you think you're eating...