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Just a sip out of the Jack Daniels bottle in which Peg kept his hot as ice and clear as crystal brew was enough to feel a hell of a jolt, but Daniel had to go and pour the whole thing into his beer and Gay came back and, taking off her denims, climbed into the tub and suddenly it was right. Shooting stars peeled off the cob of the Milky Way, iridescent silk whipped off the rich black and yellow health of night, plunging into the darkness of the valley where a pair of headlights twined down the pass...
...rest of 1975. Nonetheless, the long road back to full prosperity contains many potential pitfalls, which were all too evident last week. President Ford finally produced a plan for gradual decontrol of oil prices that has a chance of passing Congress, but some threat remains of an abrupt jolt to the economy when present controls expire Aug. 31. A June spurt in consumer prices indicated that inflation is not yet dead, and a renewed rise in interest rates stirred fear among some economists that the Federal Reserve Board is not pursuing policies expansive enough to promote an accelerating recovery. Details...
...visible outside Apollo's left window were the curved earth, one of the large finger-like petals of the docking module and, off in the distance, the winged Soyuz. After a few moments of maneuvering, Stafford nudged Apollo up against Soyuz so gently that there was barely a jolt as the three interlacing fingers on each ship locked together. Later at a briefing in Moscow, one of the Soviet controllers remarked that the Russians had been especially anxious during the last critical moments because, he said, films of Stafford's earlier space piloting and docking showed abrupt movements...
...week up to six months, including the possibility of doing their time on weekends or nights so that work or school opportunities would not be lost. Short "shock treatment" sentences have been used successfully in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky; the claimed benefit is that prisoners get the rectifying jolt of prison without the dehumanization of long exposure to prison life, and there has been a lower than average recidivism rate...
...next several years to prevent oil producers from raising prices whenever they want to. Indeed, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may hike world prices by as much as $2 per bbl. in September-a move that would give the American economy a vicious double jolt if Congress and the President let all U.S. price controls die a month earlier...