Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encouraging consumers to switch from gas to oil. And the burden borne by consumers who stick with gas will be tremendous: James Flug, head of a Washington-based consumer group called Energy Action, estimates that the bill will add $35 to $55 billion overall to the national energy price tag over a maddeningly vague period of time--and this does not even include inflation. The average cost of gas in 1985 will be 353 per cent of what it was in 1977, and 1608 per cent of the 1970 price, Flug says...
...increase in tuition, room and board fees for this year, students took little consolation in the facts that the rate of increase has fallen since 1975 or that this is the first time in recent years that Harvard has not been more expensive than Yale. The $7500 price tag on a Harvard education this year means that the Class of '82 will have to spend at least $30,000 to stay here four years--more if fees go up again--which they undoubtedly will...
...question now is which aid package will eventually become law. Either option involves the largest one-time increase in federal aid to education since 1956; both packages carry about a $1.5 billion price tag. Clearly the aid bills are too expensive to enable both of them to pass, but Capitol Hill aides say Congress might pass both bills anyway and leave the choice up to President Carter...
...Vampire blob" is a tag game. Anyone tagged, with a mock bite on the neck, joins hands with the biter and becomes part of the monster. "The lap game" is even simpler: a crowd forms a huge ring, and everyone sits down simultaneously on the player behind. Though "blob" and "lap" may seem like innocent cavorting, they are serious business to San Francisco's New Games Foundation. An offshoot of a 1973 New Games Tournament, staged by Whole Earth Catalog Creator Stewart Brand, the foundation is now a growing national enterprise. Its goal is nothing less than to change...
Equipment prices have soared. Jessie's $50,000 machines cost only $17,000 in 1971. Next year he plans to trade in three or four of his old combines on several new John Deeres with 30-ft.-wide cutting heads. Price tag: $60,000 each. The Smalls' present inventory of equipment is worth better than half a million dollars: seven combines, six $20,000 trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers...