Word: inch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as the SALT talks inch toward the elusive goal of limiting the arms race, weapons designers are creating ever newer generations of lethal hardware...
...cabaret comedian who had never even been on a stage before." She worried that she was too tall. He worried that he was too short. They took off their shoes and measured, back to back. She, at 5 ft. 7 in., was three-quarters of an inch taller. Close enough...
...gave her a rough ride. She also had a run-in with another aquatic creature; Shamu, the resident killer whale, swam up and gave her a big wet kiss. "He has a 30-lb. tongue," shuddered Valerie. "And you could be wiped out if you moved a single inch...
...underlying inflation level continues to inch up, it could begin to seriously erode the rate of real economic expansion. Members of TIME's Board of Economists expect a simmering down of growth during the final months of 1977 and throughout '78. David Grove, IBM's chief economist, expects declining growth rates-to 4.7% in the third quarter and 4.1% in the fourth. Beryl Sprinkel, a monetarist and executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, expects about a 3.5% growth rate in the last part of 1977. For next year the majority...
...that expense is becoming as heavy a burden as the price of the raw land. George F. Schoeck, a bank executive in Morris County, N.J., gives this example: "A builder used to put in a 28-foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1½ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing." The result of these and other requirements...