Word: priming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million-no mean effort for a country whose 10 million people get by on a yearly per capita income of $77. In Katmandu, roads were widened and repaved, street lamps were installed, and Nepalese workmen painted over everything in sight, including the bronze statues of the Rana prime ministers. A new $2 million royal palace was rushed to completion to dazzle an anticipated crush of 3,000 foreign guests. The Nepalese cleared out the shaggiest of the Western hippies, who come to Katmandu to get high on the altitude and cheap hash, and they brought in more than 100 German...
...newspaper that is pushing the Longuette,* jokingly called the new look "the damned length"-a reference to Luchino Visconti's successful movie The Damned, which displays not only Brownshirts in drag but women in 1930s skirts. The influential daily has, as a result of its campaign, become a prime target of the miniforces. "Women's Wear influences Seventh Avenue because it comes out every day," complains one disgruntled manufacturer. "It's like brainwashing: you read anything on a daily basis and you begin to believe it." Others are hoping against hope that Orbach's, which holds...
...Gambia's Prime Minister, Sir Dawda Jawara, K.B., had peered out a window of his seaside residence a few days ago, he would have seen a fat, nude 75-year-old Swede standing on his head. Shocking? Not a bit, for over the past four years the residents of this tiny West African nation have shrugged off the sight of Swedes-nude or clothed -who each winter desert their frosty homeland for a gambol on Gambia's beautiful white sand beaches. As a travel brochure puts it: "If you like, you can swim nude alone-so huge...
...financial markets are obsessed by the question of how soon and how much the Federal Reserve may ease money and credit. The stock market is so hungry for easier credit that the Dow-Jones industrial average bounded 20 points last week in a euphoric reaction to cuts in the prime lending rate, from 8½% to 8%, by two small banks in Philadelphia and Bakersfield, Calif. Major banks, however, scoffed at the idea of reducing their loan charges...
North American Rockwell was the prime contractor for the Apollo command and service modules and thus a prime loser when the space program was curtailed. Then last December, in the competition for the contract to build the F-15 Air Force fighter, the company lost out to McDonnell Douglas. North American Rockwell started firing, and plans to reduce its work force from 61,000 in December...