Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become as boring as vitamin pills--this stuff, however, doesn't fall into that trap. Typically an ARS song begins with a minimum of frills, a few tight riffs and you're rocking down the highway with them, wishing like Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan attorney that your tin-pot radio could turn higher...
...Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II? And if this list is supposed to update the original of 25 years ago, why does it recognize so few living writers? Bellow and Solzhenitsyn are admirable, but where is the magic of Grass's The Tin Drum or Robert Lowell's Life Studies or Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow...
...misnamed tin can, symbol of Americans' compulsion to litter, took on a new kind of emblematic role last week. In a rare display of Government-industry amity, U.S. Steel Corp. announced that it will raise the price of the tin-plated steel used to make most beer, vegetable and fruit cans by an average of 4.8%, and the White House publicly bestowed its blessing on the increase as a relatively moderate one. More important, TIME has learned that the Carter Administration got U.S. Steel to shave down the increase as a result of private talks that constituted a model...
...executives would be willing to reduce the raise. Steelmen refused but got the point for the future. In mid-January, U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar B. Speer visited Bert Lance, who was about to become director of the Office of Management and Budget, to tell him that a raise on tin plate was coming. Lance asked him to return to Washington to talk about it, and a week after the Inauguration, Speer met with Lance, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze in Lance's office. They agreed that a 4.8% increase would be justified...
...pledge, you can fulfill some nebulous dream with a chance to conduct the Boston Pops through your infantile interpretation of "Stars and Stripes Forever." Garner $100 between you and the three other members of you tin-alley string quartet, and Richard Mackey, BSO horn player will run through the Mozart horn quintet (K. 407) with your group. Pops principal cellist, Martin Hoherman, vows to "add lustre to your cello playing" with a series of five lessons, at a modest...