Word: leatherizing
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...thing just before the Preakness. A TV crew does not faze him. Recently, while a handler was being interviewed, Secretariat calmly began to nibble on the microphone on the off chance that it was edible. Once, while the horse was being led to stable by Groom Ed Sweat, the leather strap broke off in Sweat's hand. A stallion on the loose can be a perilous thing. Were his people scared? "You can say that again," recalls Laurin. But Secretariat merely stopped and waited for Sweat to grab the halter. "He wasn't going anywhere," says the groom...
...their industries were either operating "beyond capacity" or between 90% and 100% of their potential. A total of 95% of the buyers believed that prices would continue to rise in 1973, especially for such increasingly scarce items as copper, steel, zinc, transformers, electrical components, machine parts, wire, plastics and leather. Lags in production schedules, the survey notes, are forcing purchasing agents to order farther and farther in advance. For example, 21% of the buyers polled were ordering more than 180 days ahead in April, v. 14% in March and a mere 6% in December...
Consent. The proposed new rules would allow foreign investors starting new businesses in Japan to provide all the capital for them except in 22 industries. Of these, five that are considered especially vital to the Japanese economy-including munitions, leather and large-scale retailing-would be kept permanently off-limits to majority foreign ownership. The other 17 industries, among them clothing, computer, pharmaceutical and camera-film manufacturing, would be opened to 100% outside ownership within the next three years-though some investments would still be subject to government review. The council also urged that investors be free...
When she got home, she took off her pink pants suit and unbuckled her patent leather shoes. She put on a pair of cutoff jeans and a green shirt with an alligator on one pocket. She hung up the pants suit, but left the shoes and socks in the middle of the floor...
...private discoveries--finding that a denunciation of an MTA fare hike someone once sang for me was originally a Progressive Party campaign song from the 1948 Boston mayoral race, or recognizing "The House Carpenter," an English Ballad, as a source or relative of Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather." There are enough songs for everyone to make similar discoveries of his own, or just to revel in familiar things, like the gruesome fates of the wedding guests in "Froggy Went A-Courting...