Word: peg
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...eighth with a solid single to left. Bobby Kelley and Steve Tilles then advanced him to third with a perfect sacrifice and a sliced single to left respectively. Mike Stenhouse brought Pearce home with a fly to short center which Jumbo Dan O'Brien caught and made a strong peg toward the plate with. Yet first baseman and brother Kevin O'Brien mysteriously cut the throw off at the mound and still made a relay that almost nabbed Pearce...
Republicans Sprinkel and Murray Weidenbaum would favor an amendment that would peg the growth in Government spending to growth in the gross national product. Says Weidenbaum: "This gets to the heart of the matter, which is to slow down the growth of the Government." One danger is that the G.N.P. is the product of many estimates and is often revised; if spending were linked to the G.N.P., politicians would be tempted to twist and bend that number...
...none of them particularly costly. Six of these ingredients-decyl oleate, lanolin oil, propylene glycol, isostearic acid, acetylated lanolin alcohol and ceteareth-5-are moisturizers and emollients. These relieve dryness and protect the skin by softening, conditioning and lubricating it. Triethanolamine, stearic acid, glyceryl stearate, magnesium aluminum silicate and PEG-75 lanolin oil are emulsifiers that enable the other ingredients to mix and form a smooth lotion. Three of the ingredients are pigments, which give color to the skin when the cream goes on. They are titanium dioxide, iron oxides and talc. There are also three preservatives to lengthen...
...with the dollars they get from oil sales. Indeed, the Saudis let few riyals out of the country; they do not want the riyal to become an international currency, lest its value be set by speculators and other money traders. Authorities have kept the formula by which they peg the riyal's value a deep secret. A London bank once set its computers to work trying to calculate the formula, to see whether and how it was related to the Saudis' trading surplus or the fluctuations of the dollar against other currencies, but drew a complete blank...
Dropping down a peg in flashiness and professionalism but not necessarily in quality are the street chamber ensembles. These can be found in front of Holyoke Center, in the Coop main doorway, and in the little park in front of Grendel's Den. These musicians usually play excellent classical music and give you the feeling that you are indeed in a cultural center...