Word: yet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the flurry in futures cheers farmers and grain dealers, it is also yet another portent of price trouble for the inflation-battered consumer. At the very least it has clouded earlier Department of Agriculture forecasts that food prices would level off this year. Indeed, the rise of nearly 1% in those prices in May that was reported last week was substantially greater than the Administration had expected, since food supplies were so high...
...knows yet what causes this crippler, which afflicts perhaps 6 million Americans, but it seems to involve the immune system. Some white blood cells-part of the system's defenses-seem to go awry. Possibly because something appears "foreign" to them in the joints, perhaps a virus, they converge at these sites. That causes a chronic inflammation that may erode the cartilage and then the bones, leading to deformity...
This plan bears a wilting resemblance to the Petroleum Consumption Curtailment Countermeasures adopted last March in Japan, which urged workers to set their thermostats at 28° C (82.4° F). Although the fashion has yet to catch on with the public, Energy Czar Masumi Esaki has been trying to promote what he calls the Sho-ene (save energy) Look-a short-sleeved suit, sans tie, which he wore to greet Carter last week in Tokyo...
...reduce the noise level" of the planned air strikes, and he kept scaling down the air cover. Not even highly skeptical military chiefs, secretly relieved to let the CIA run the project, had the nerve to inform Kennedy that the operation had grown too large to hide its origins, yet remained too limited to succeed. Looking back, one CIA official told Wyden, somebody "should have said, 'Mr. President, this is going to create one hell of a lot of noise...
...beach only after the aircraft insignia were obliterated with gray paint. But only the U.S. Navy flew the A-4D jet fighter, whose distinctive silhouette was instantly recognizable. Similarly, a crew was sent over the side of the destroyer U.S.S. Eaton to paint out the ship's name. Yet the vessel's outline could be clearly identified as that of a U.S. warship; at binocular range, even the raised lettering could be read...