Word: slides
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...monographs and collected essays- Plato Today. The God That Failed, New Fabian Essays. and The Government and the Governed. His current identity as one of the most powerful politicians in the Wilson Cabinet pokes through the do??sb mannerisms: the gray hair parts in the middle, the glasses slide down his nose, the fingers clench in good podium style, the wrinkles of the mouth detect a sly grin. The Opposition must think him a sassy socialist...
...Thank you, thank you, thank you for "America the Inefficient" [March 23]. I am rushing a complimentary copy to my contractor, who managed to install five large glass sliding doors to slide the wrong way. We have one of those Monday cars...
...Europe was up 21% compared with the same period in 1968-69. European ski resorts have been among the richest beneficiaries of the fares. The flight to European slopes also hurts such U.S. ski centers as Colorado's Aspen, Snowmass, and Buttermilk, which collectively suffered a 6% slide in January business...
PRODUCT DESIGN: Companies could design products with an eye to easier repair. Motorola now produces color TV sets in which the basic parts are tucked into a pullout drawer; a serviceman can slide out the drawer and replace the faulty parts without hauling the whole set into his shop. In addition, manufacturers could spend more on improved quality and less on annual model changes. "Planned obsolescence," says Henry Ford II. "is out the window...
...among vandals, and "midnight plumbers" move in to tear out everything that can be sold. A Baltimore housing official describes the process: "On the first night, the building is looted. With the plumbing gone, the building is no longer habitable. The next night, or soon, the kids on dope slide in. Then the neighborhood's apprentice arsonist pays a visit." Such social disorder is infectious and it is often the prime factor that impels law-abiding ghetto dwellers to flight...