Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three London dailies, which proceeded to scoop the Conservative Party with its own platform. Entitled "Putting Britain First," the manifesto puts the fight against inflation above everything else, warning bluntly that "because of the economic crisis, there is no room for early improvement in living standards." The political thrust of the document was clearly aimed as much at wooing back the hundreds of thousands of usually Tory voters who had defected to the Liberals as it was against Labor...
...backs up its plea with a convincing array of arguments. It assuredly is not crying wolf: the threat to survival is real. The line owes some $300 million to banks led by New York's First National City. The thrust of the airline's argument is that its problems are not of its own making. Fuel costs alone have more than tripled since last October, from 11? to 35? per gal. on the average and even higher in some places; fully 94% of Pan Am's fuel is bought out of reach of any U.S. price controls...
...correction authorities. Making life more pleasant for prisoners is only a side effect. The principal goal is to increase the chance that a prison sentence will reform a criminal rather than alienate him further from society. Explains Robert Vagt, deputy commissioner of community services in Massachusetts: "Our whole thrust is to get incarcerated people into a more normal environment. If it's not coed, then we're preparing them for a situation that they are not going to meet in life...
...John Berry last week. "That is one of the characteristics of an inflationary environment: the uncertainty in the average household. What will be the cost of my food, my shelter? This uncertainty makes the consumer pull back and save more. If we are successful in bringing down the big thrust of federal spending, convincing people that it and inflation can be controlled, then home building can start to move, sales tied to home building can begin to move-and that includes cars." The ultimate result, Greenspan believes, will be less unemployment as well as slower price rises...
...Jimi Hendrix delivered right onstage. His hair frizzled as though by electricity, his scarves and sashes bobbing over sequined vests and velvet jackets in foppish disarray, he looked like a tripped-out savage impersonating a Carnaby Street dandy. His guitar was a throbbing phallic extension that he would caress, thrust at the audience, then set on fire at evening's end. The music was raw blues blasted out at maximum volume. Bursting on the rock scene in 1967 at the height of the acid-rock movement, Hendrix was a sensation: the first black superstar of mainstream rock. Three years...