Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford Motor Co. managers estimate that the 35 to 44 age group, with its interest in outdoor leisure pursuits, buys 25% of all vans and pickups. These consumers want fuel-efficient cars-but also fancy extras like air conditioning and stereo. Says Louis W. Stern, marketing professor at Northwestern University: "That age group wants the outward visible things that say, 'I have made it and I want to live comfortably...
...Andel started Amway in 1959 with Richard DeVos, a Grand Rapids high school chum who is now president and the other co-owner of the company. The two had joined a number of small enterprises after World War II, including a restaurant, a flying school, a commercial air charter service and a distributorship for Nutrilite. The two left to start Amway, taking with them a number of discontented Nutrilite distributors. The first product that Amway marketed was an all-purpose liquid cleaner called Frisk, and today soaps and detergents remain the core of the business...
Switch on a home air conditioner, a factory pump or just about any electric device and the motor will burn roughly the same amount of current whether the machine is running fast or slow. This inefficiency and waste of energy by motors could soon be eliminated, according to Exxon Corp. Last week the world's largest oil company announced with much fanfare that it has developed a new electric energy technology that could save the U.S. the equivalent of 1 million...
...there is not much saving radiance in the sky. Instead, the air is alive with the sound of lamentation. At various times from various quarters, TV has been accused of raising the crime rate, dropping students' test scores, crippling the imagination, undermining national literacy, and layering American homes with an attention-numbing narcotic. The charges go way back. They were first raised by long-suffering parents and teachers who simply watched the TV viewing of children under their care and came to what they felt were grim, self-evident conclusions. Then the argument shifted a bit to the amount...
...case of the CAT scanner, for instance, most doctors would agree with the Boston physician who observes: "It has all but relieved us of doing angiograms or putting air into people's brains. Both of those had an element of risk and were not nearly so accurate as the CAT." But when it comes to the usefulness of whole body scanning there is considerably more disagreement, even though evidence is mounting in the machine's favor. Another important question is how many of the devices the country needs, and can afford...