Word: weather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's game marks the diamond anniversary of thehorseshoe, and it's an understatement to say that a lot ofamazing things have transpired in the last 75 years. Therewas the cold-weather conversion of the field into skatingrinks; there was the modification from horseshoe to oval andback again; there were speeches (Castro) and rock concerts(Baez to Manilow); but most of all there were footballgames...
...meet started in 1969 when parachuting was just beginning to take hold in this country, and it has managed to maintain a special appeal while jumping has become a highly organized international sport, one now dominated by Americans. Part of the lure of the meet is simply the Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming on and the temperature at 12,000 ft. may hover at 0°F. This year some 100 competitors from around the world joined more than 500 Americans to perform in the sunshine...
...salt dishes to a copy of Auguste Rodin's Age of Bronze, a statue of a nude male that stands 41½ in. high and sells for $7,500. In scope, they embrace reproductions of such varied items as Picasso's Houses on the Hill ($650), a weather vane sculpture of a 19th century race horse ($975), an old Chinese temple jar ($1,000) and an 18th century Japanese wood carving of a sleeping cat ($125). Besides beauty and style, what these and 112 other art objects being offered in a slickly handsome new catalogue have in common...
DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services...
...want the moment it is offered, you might as well give up. Eliminate uncertainties, that's the golden rule. You eliminate uncertainties in production through technology and very careful management. You eliminate uncertainties in price by controlling the marketing as much as you can. That leaves demand and the weather as the big question marks, and you don't worry about them unless you want stomach pains...