Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times like these, in the early morning hours, that visions of palm trees and pedal steel guitar music start winking and swaying, sultrily enticing while outside Cambridge's wind chain-saws through the joggers and mailmen. Palm trees equal sunshine, sixpacks, surf. Pedal steel guitars equal smoky night clubs, sequins, cocaine in the back rooms. What more could you want? (For spring vacation, anyway...
...river stank," Russell Long, one of the crews in the event said. "The water was brown and odious, there was 2 1/2 knot current and the wind gusted from 0 to 44 at one point...
...bill aimed at achieving some of these results passed the Senate last December. The Financial Institutions Act, on which the House Banking Committee will wind up hearings this week, is more comprehensive. Its most important provisions...
...confident did Anderson appear at one point that he told one of his managers: "There will be a 1976." But the store's creditors thought differently, and began pressing for liquidation. Grant owed $640 million to banks alone. No matter what Anderson did, the banks reasoned, Grant would wind up still deeply in the red, forcing creditors to settle for even less on the dollar than they will get from the liquidation...
Curiously, cereal makers are rather reticent in talking about their recent sales successes. Reason: a Federal Trade Commission investigation that began in 1972 and is likely to wind up in a few months. The FTC is seeking to determine whether Kellogg's, General Mills, General Foods (which markets Post cereals) and Quaker Oats have monopolized the market by flooding it with similar brands and advertising them on a scale that smaller competitors cannot match. The FTC, in other words, suspects that the competition is all a lot of puff; to the cereal makers, it seems only too real...