Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe, where gasoline sells for as much as $2.25 per gal. and diesel fuel is much cheaper, diesels account for 2.5% of auto sales. In the U.S., diesel-car sales have been held back by high prices (the cheapest Mercedes diesel lists for $10,278, not including options) and by the diesel's traditional drawbacks-low power, hard starting, loud noise and heavy weight. But auto engineers have a major incentive, besides economy, to work at overcoming these problems. Surprising though it may seem to anyone who has trailed a smoke-belch-ing diesel truck, diesels already meet federal...
...activity. Literature can convey only a mechanical imitation of the real thing-and offer a skewed reality to boot: "I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it, a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing." Instead of their lovers, Gass wants writers to caress their language: "It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word." In Gass's view, the truly "blue" writers...
...what the Yale Daily News account this week calls "21 minutes at Cambridge" the thieves broke through a window of the band's music library, punched down the temporary partition separating the library from the band room, and cut the heavy chain holding the drum...
Many women still go out of their way to bank at First Women's. Some 75% of its more than 6,000 checking-account customers are women, although many of the accounts are small and inactive. Lourdes Rosa, 30, an office manager, frequently makes a long subway trip from her Bronx home to First Women's because the bank gave her a furniture loan and she finds its atmosphere "much friendlier than other banks...
...useful introduction to this new edition provides an account of Childers' tragic later career in the Irish Rebel lion. An Anglo-Irishman educated in England, Childers was a driven and complex idealist whose life ended in front of a firing squad near Dublin in 1922. Along with his Bostonian wife Dorothy, Childers had run arms into Ire land by sailboat before World War I. After serving with distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became...