Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...desk is a picture frame, but instead of family photographs (wife and three children) it contains a schedule, neatly filled with appointments, six days a week, beginning with a daily 7 a.m. planning meeting with top assistants and ending often at 8 p.m. Next to the schedule is a clock...
While all these prospects are primarily industrial, U.S. planners are fully aware of the implications that a productivity revolution will have on a nation's global power. Says the Bureau of Standards' Albus: "Any country that develops the capacity to run its factories around the clock seven days per week with only a few human workers will have a tremendous advantage both economically and militarily. If nothing else, this capability would allow military weapons to be produced in virtually unlimited quantities at extremely low costs. But even assuming that such plants were never used for military production...
With prosperity, Nolo has moved to larger quarters in a converted clock factory but retains its raffish, blue-jeans style. The staff, which works amid cantaloupe-crate bookshelves and suspended Chinese kites, has expanded to 17 (including an artist-lawyer, an anthropologist, and the stand-in for Toshiro Mifune in the TV series Shogun). To keep pace with changing laws, they regularly issue updated editions, and recently published a sort of Whole Earth Catalog of the law called The People's Law Review...
...greeted by a girl in communion dress reciting obscene poetry. Once inside, visitors were invited to destroy a wooden sculpture by Ernst with a hatchet provided for the purpose and to contemplate, among other entries, Baargeld's "Fluidaskeptrik," an aquarium containing red water, simulating blood, an alarm clock, a wooden arm reaching out of the water on the surface of which floated a women...
...road. Says Automotive Writer Wallace A. Wyss: "Ford made the car better than it planned. Detroit expects the average auto buyer to trade in a car after three years, but there are plenty of people still driving their '65 Mustangs with 200,000 miles on the clock, almost unaware that it's 1980." Many owners trade Mustang parts and stories at regional swap meets...