Word: hunks
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...stage akin to when the first lathe did a reasonable job on a hunk of metal. But machine vision has as important a role in automated assembly as human vision has for assembly by humans...
...dies. So he moves out on spouse and daughter, 8, and, sure enough, Lupe, the woman he's been waiting for, conveniently moves into the apartment over his new abode. This infuriates his ex-wife, who then demands almost everything they've owned, down to his last unworked hunk of wood, which he fashions into a copy of his phallus before he surrenders it to her. The book's few strengths (the father-daughter conversations are well handled, the scenes with the divorce lawyers are vivid) are undermined by the seemingly endless barrage of cliched dialogue and boringly explicit sexuality...
...Raikes and Ragamuffins" [Aug. 25]: The Sunday school is dying because the church too often welcomes with gratitude and relief any hunk of protoplasm with a yen to teach who can be scrounged up and stuck in front of a class. Misinformation is innocently, unapologetically, enthusiastically and dogmatically perpetrated. Thoughtful students can hardly be criticized for fleeing this scene...
Consumers are also likely to remain sluggish spenders because inflation and taxes are taking away such a large hunk of their incomes. The after-inflation real hourly earnings of Americans dropped by 5.6% during the first three months of 1980, the eighth straight quarter that price rises had got the better of paychecks. The tax bite is getting bigger too. Just when the economy is expected to start picking up, a $12.4 billion increase in Social Security taxes will take effect in January. This will raise the amount paid by a family of four earning $25,000 a year...
...another comparatively hardhearted approach gaining adherents even in the U.S. State Department is simply to be tougher in striking back next time?as the Soviets would probably be. "Tehran would never happen to the Soviets," says U.S. Antiterrorism Expert Robert Kupperman. "If it did, they would wipe out a hunk of the city, even if they lost everybody in their embassy. That has its deterrent effect...