Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing at the rate of 30,000 to 40,000 a year. The economy, once bound to beer and tourism, is now worth about $17 billion a year. Biggest contributors: electronics (notably Siemens) and automobiles (notably BMW, with new headquarters that resemble a cluster of three engine cylinders). No business is hard-pressed, whether it be publishing (every seventh German book title is printed in Munich) or the clothing and fashion industries, where earnings have outstripped the beer business threefold...
...week's end, the South Vietnamese task force at Quang Tri was inching its way forward, with the help of U.S. air strikes, toward the center of Quang Tri city. One such strike, Hillenbrand reported, transformed a thickly wooded enemy bunker position into a cluster of burnt-out tree stumps, "as if some triple-strength forest fire had passed that way." If past performance is any guide, the North Vietnamese will probably put up a mettlesome resistance before withdrawing-and the NVA still has plenty of long-range artillery in the hills to the west of the city. Nonetheless...
Soviet officials would prefer inquisitive foreigners to believe that the elaborate privacy is for the benefit of disabled war veterans and aged proletarians in nearby rest homes and hospitals. In fact, as every Muscovite knows, the fence hides a cluster of sumptuous villas belonging to the Kremlin elite. They are the most luxurious examples of the dacha (country house), a cherished retreat for every Russian lucky enough to have one, and a coveted status symbol for those who do not. There are approximately 40,000 dachas within a 30-mile radius of Moscow alone, including elegant mansions of the country...
...over the city, from St. Cloud to Montparnasse, from Place d'ltalie to Belleville, there are signs of building, burrowing and bulldozing. Some 60 new skyscrapers puncture a skyline once graced mainly by domes and spires; one cluster of tall buildings even crowds the Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean...
...auto profits are benefiting because it has not. Enough status-conscious buyers remain to boost sales of luxury cars, such as Cadillacs and Imperials, to record levels. Even minicar purchasers, while shunning big-car prestige, are choosing comfort and convenience along with transportation. Although prices of stripped-down minicars cluster around $2,000, the average price of those sold is considerably higher because motorists are selecting fancy options. Roughly 81% of the cars sold today contain power steering; 63% have factory-built air conditioning; 58% come with vinyl tops; and 3.6% have stereo tape players...