Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing has quite worked out the way Frank Church intended. He was forced to delay his entry into the race because he was chairing the Senate investigation of the CIA and other intelligence agencies. If he had seemed to wrap up the hearings too hastily, he would have been accused of playing politics with national security. He had hoped his performance as chairman would give his campaign a solid if belated boost, but it did not really get him off the ground...
Plastered to the gold-wallpapered column in the lobby of the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, a newly printed bumper sticker proclaimed: DON'T BUY FIRESTONE PRODUCTS. Nearby, in an elegant ballroom, negotiators for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Rubber Workers had failed to wrap up a new contract-and so, across the nation, 60,000 union members walked off their jobs at plants of the industry's Big Four (Firestone, Uniroyal, Goodrich and Goodyear...
...stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide... As we could not allow the Whites to be present at a deliberation nor show them a drama that does not concern them, and as, in order to cover up, we have had to fabricate the only one that does concern them... We are what they want...
Results will not be lightning fast even now. The negotiators have given themselves until the end of next year to wrap up an agreement, and they will need the time. The tariff problem is only the first that must be resolved. In the past, the U.S. has advocated "linear" tariff cuts (reducing all tariffs by the same percentage); Europeans have wanted "harmonization" (extra-deep cuts in the highest tariffs). Even though tariffs in both the U.S. and the Common Market average between 9% and 10%, Europeans argue that U.S. duties are unevenly distributed between very high and very low rates...
...cocktail parties, consider Calvin Klein's salmon crepe-de-chine long-sleeved blouse with banded collar, and his separate matching narrow-front wrap skirt (both for $232). Finally, for that most glamorous evening, the jewel of the wardrobe: Halston's peach silk crepe-de-chine evening jumpsuit, bare back, with halter top, bias cowl neck and bias self-sash at waist...