Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...taught that women are irrational. What other explanation could there be for the constant yet seemingly unreasonable fighting with girls about possession, jealousy, sexual protocol, social protocol? Why else are mothers so helplessly trying to control, "protect," their children? Why else are secretaries so "self-important" and "bitchy?" That is, how else can we explain the inhuman relationship we have with women...
...however, are needed to deal with the burgeoning blood business. The council itself has no enforcement authority, and the U.S. Public Health Service's Division of Biologics Standards can regulate only the purity and safety of those plasma products shipped across state lines. Washington can exercise only limited control over the purchase of raw plasma from unlicensed laboratories. It is up to the states to regulate the commercial blood centers, and few, so far, have shown any inclination...
...another move to control costs, some 40 companies have begun manufacturing modular housing-factory-finished rooms that are assembled at the site. Richard Wasserman, president of Levitt & Sons, which is building a modular factory, expects that this system will cut construction costs to at least 5% below those of today's conventional, on-site building. Wasserman anticipates much larger savings in the years ahead because "the incredible shortage of skilled craftsmen" seems certain to drive wages at building sites up much faster than those of lower-paid factory workers...
Spurred by mounting public alarm over smog-choked cities and a generally threatened ecology, the gasoline producers are dashing to establish their credentials as nature's protectors. They are not alone. Environmental control has become one of the hottest themes on Madison Avenue, and it now appears in ads for firms as disparate as Westinghouse, International Paper and Procter & Gamble. What is the reason? "It is partly conscience and partly good business," says Adman James Durfee, president of Carl Ally, Inc. Adds Kenyon & Eckhardt's Sam Spilo: "It is fear. Businessmen see their corporations threatened for fouling...
Some executives assert that the public is not interested in paying for products that reduce pollution. General Motors, for example, has just spent $50,000 to promote and test-market in Phoenix a $20 exhaust-emission control kit for pre-1968 models. Out of 334,000 owners of such cars in the area, only 528 bought the kit. (Chrysler, on the other hand, reports brisk sales of a similar kit for its cars...