Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wage-price controls. Strikes are banned, what unions exist are kept weak, and yearly wage increases are held below productivity gains. The price index is also blatantly manipulated. It is heavily weighted to living costs prevailing in the state of Guanabara (where Rio de Janeiro is located), where prices trail those in the rest of the country. Last year many prices posted by the government and used in the index were well below the prices that goods were actually selling for. Despite indexing, in the five years ending in 1970, the real purchasing power of the wages earned by Brazil...
...which they were sailing ..." Publishers report an increase in sales of western novels after a decline in the '60s, and they link this new interest to a nostalgia for the old America. No wonder, then, that L'Amour has become so popular. There is hardly a better trail guide. · Helen Rogan
...special version of the Western to The Long Goodbye's innovations in the Chandler tradition, seek to break out of or enlarge genres. Thieves, with all its similarities to Bonnie and Clyde--robbers enjoying their descriptions in the papers, the shoot out at the motor court--cuts a new trail as well. Altman hopes it will do better when he takes it to the Cannes Festival, where M*A*S*H was a grand prize winner...
...cowboy on the lonely diplomatic trail, the foreign affairs adviser to Hollywood starlets, the dashing bachelor of Foggy Bottom-he is no more. Only recently revealed as the most-admired man in America, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 50, last week abandoned his exaggerated image as a swinger. He got married. Not, as he quipped a couple of months ago, to his most frequent dinner date in that hectic period, Joseph Sisco, his chief adviser on Middle East affairs, but to his longtime close friend, Nancy Maginnes...
...fourth game, Yale raced to a quick 3-0 lead as a result of Harvard defensive lapses, but the Crimson then narrowed the margin to 3-4. Yale spurted to a five-point advantage, but the Crimson responded with four of their own, to trail again...