Word: actually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EATING: Actual cooking is a time-consuming process, and has been abandoned for thawing and heating, which is not an unqualified advance. Since there is a limit-for most people a fairly low one-to how far the pleasures of sitting at table can be enhanced by increasing the amount and quality of the food, it is probable that eating will become an inferior pursuit...
...dollar by promoting a mystifying variety of cryptically named additives and other special ingredients that promise to per form a miracle in the tank. The Fed eral Trade Commission, investigating one aspect of the great gasoline war, plans to press for legislation to force the companies to post actual octane ratings on the pumps so that motorists will not have to buy higher octane than their cars need. Now the battle ground has expanded to another area of mystification: the rich and growing market for oil additives...
...price tags under consideration are no more precise than early estimates of the cost of putting man on the moon. NASA officials, who have always worried about being accused of underestimating costs, used to quote figures as high as $40 billion, but the actual cost of Apollo to date has been $24 billion. As for Mars, New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson, head of the Senate Space Committee, guesses that the bill for a manned mission would run from $25 billion to $40 billion...
Critics of the program, which include the National Welfare Rights Organization, feel the main problem lies in the recruiting system. The actual communication with AFDC clients is done by the Department of Public Welfare social workers, after which a recipient is referred...
...Even the actual flight has its deflating aspects. Interest in the current moon shot developed slowly. After all, ten Apollos preceded this week's try: if Columbus had made a half dozen preliminary Atlantic crossing before finally deciding top get off the boat, the Situation would have been somewhat analogous...