Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high accident and attrition rate among Cambridge's automobile population is the lifeblood of the many junkyards on the alley--it creates a very high demand for used parts and it provides the dealers with an endless stream of junked cars from which to salvage those parts. The connection between all the cars piled in the yards in the alley and the personal injury and property damage that resulted from the traffic accidents involving these cars is often difficult to make. But, on some of the manged cars, cryptic yellow markings on the windshield tell the tragic story...
...Since June Harvard has spent more than $30,000 to work out an arrangement with the city of Cambridge on the related facilities--those structures that are to accompany the archival portion of the library if it ever gets built in the MBTA yard site. The negotiations are the lifeblood of the Cambridge end of the deal, because it is by selling some sort of package to a developer--which may include entertainment facilities, hotels, or a small shopping plaza--that Harvard hopes to recoup the $3 million it would give the Kennedy Corporation...
...these skirmishes were part of what Europeans call the Great Franco-Italian Wine War. The casus belli is a glut of gros rouge, the rough red wine that is the lifeblood of most Mediterraneans and a mainstay of France and Italy's agricultural economy. A bumper harvest last year helped to create a Common Market surplus of 2.6 billion gal. At the same time, French consumers have been cutting back at the rate of one bottle a head; consumption dropped from a total of 1.3 billion gal. in 1973 to a mere 1.2 billion in 1974. Complains one French...
...McWhirters insist there is no harm in encouraging people to believe that there are records to be broken. Their book features two separate warnings that trying to break underwater endurance records is extremely dangerous. And their publisher--Guinness's lifeblood notwithstanding--flatly forbids records involving the consumption of more than two liters of liquor (except, apparently, in the case of "a hard drinker" named Vanhorn, who is said to have emptied 35,688 bottles of ruby port before succumbing in 1811) as well as "potentially dangerous categories such as consuming live ants, quantities of chewing gum or marshmallows...
...more costly or critical contest than the annual quest for signatures. Nor, for less scrupulous schools, is there a dirtier sport (TIME, Jan. 21,1974). The reason: failure to get enough of the right names on the dotted line can mean disaster in the stadium. "Recruiting is the lifeblood of a college program," says Devine. "Without recruiting, Notre Dame would...