Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...talked of getting back to the land, too. For many of us, a form of nostalgia even more blatantly contrived. For what did we know of the traditions of working the soil? A weekend sunk into the Woodstock mud was about the best we could manage...
...competition for supremacy in the market for giant jets, even the largest players have taken jumbo losses. Boeing Co. suffered severely when engines for its 747s were delivered late. Pan Am has had to scrub some 747 flights because of persistent bugs in the engines. Financially shaky Lockheed has sunk hundreds of millions into developing its TriStar jumbo jet, which is scheduled to make its first flight this week. Lockheed has 178 orders for the TriStar, far fewer than it needs to break even...
...this kind of wages and investment control policy is at the same time a price regulating device. Enlarged, more efficient production on the basis of advanced technique-as well as eliminating Federal Reserve-generated commercial credit sunk in foreign and domestic speculation, waste and usury-would tend to first stabilize, then rapidly reduce commodity prices. In the end, this "control policy of a new type" resolves the currency-inflation dilemma that remains the centerpiece of those control proposals submitted by ruling financiers...
...Ohio." The title of The Dead's new album is somewhat deceptive-"Workingman's Dead" is neither the Marxian manifesto set to music nor the high-energy level music produced by the fists of labor (Dead fans will be glad to know that Garcia is alive and well, sunk in country funk...
...twelve missile boats. Five of the missile boats were spirited away from a Cherbourg dock last Christmas in an escape that caused international excitement. Egypt, by comparison, has five destroyers, twelve submarines and 20 missile boats divided between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. A sixth destroyer was sunk by Israeli planes in retaliation for an Egyptian attack on an Israeli fishing boat...