Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within weeks after assuming office, he initiated the "New England Corrections Compact," a revolutionary idea which has saved money for the state and disappointment for its prisoners. Under this and compact, the first such program in any state, prisoners may be transferred from the institutions of one state to the institutions of another, thus facilitating visiting privileges, and also enabling each inmate to be placed in the type of institution best suited to him. Massachusetts inmates may thus be sent to Vermont's highly developed youth offender training center, while Vermont, for example, can send retarded criminals to the Massachusetts...
...Kiekhaefer's compact 60-h.p. "in-board-outboard," the smallest unit on the market for 14-ft. to 18-ft. boats. Modified from a Renault automobile engine, the transom-mounted motor is as easy to install and operate as an outboard but leaves more room than an inboard, facilitates land transportation (because unlike straight inboards only the easily liftable outboard section hangs below the hull...
...airiness of the Sun King's era. But historians call the earlier Louis' reign the "High Epoch," a period when Frenchmen culled ideas from the cultures of other European countries and refined them with their own innate good taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis XIII knew art lent dignity to the Crown. His style was spreading, iron hand in velvet glove with nationalism, while France pioneered...
...intensely and essentially Christian. The development of this poetic theme which seemed so sudden at the time, was accompanied by a more gradual shift in style and manner. Thus, by the time he wrote the Four Quartets, his last major poems, Eliot's style was often densely compact, unitary, monolithic even: much more self-contained except for the recurring Christian symbology. However elevated, the later poems are neither so revolutionary nor so widely pertinent. Naturally enough: the saved man speaks to a resentful audience, the tortured man to a grateful one, since he gives his fellow sufferers a voice...
...increase its share of the market from 25.6% to 27.8%. G.M.'s Chevrolet Division, the industry leader, which sold nearly a third of all U.S. cars a few years ago, actually suffered a 5% decline in sales, dropping to 28% of the market. Sales at American Motors, the compact company that has failed to share in Detroit's prosperity, were down 14%. Despite its plight, American is looking toward the new model year with just as much anticipation as its bigger brothers. In March it plans to introduce a fastback Rambler called the Marlin, hoping that it will...