Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worst First. Typically, the inspector uses noisemeters to tell whether the thrumming of machines could harm workers' ears, checks other instruments to detect potentially explosive gas leaks, and looks for missing guards on presses that can chop off an arm in a second. What have inspectors found? No eye washes in battery-charger areas, storage racks piled so high that they could fall on a worker, and no protective hearing devices...
Along with Coke, Jeep, Mace, Band-Aid and Levi's, one of the world's most famous trademarks is Esso. It is used by Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) in foreign countries and many parts of the U.S., where Esso is the trademark of the domestic operating arm, Humble Oil and Refining Co. Trouble is, legal restrictions following the 1911 breakup of the old Standard Oil trust have barred Humble from brandishing the Esso name in 20 states. In parts of the South and West, the company uses the label Enco, or, in Ohio, Humble...
...college president surveying the wreckage of his occupied office. But the greater horror eludes us. The Jews were slaughtered nearby, the Vietnamese are killed thousands of miles away: the lesson is the same. With a bit of government cosmetics, suffering can be forgotten if it is kept at arm's length. As evil becomes impersonal, we must fight to remember that suffering remains human...
...Godfather will make G. & W.'s Leisure Time Group its second most profitable arm. The company's top moneymaker is Associates Corp. of North America, a finance and insurance subsidiary that brings in some 47% of the profits. Like other conglomerates, G. & W. in the past propped up reported profits by taking advantage of liberal accounting rules. For example, in 1967-68 G. & W. sold many of Paramount's old films and recorded earnings from the deal as straight operating profits, instead of nonrecurring gains. But G. & W. has not made such sales lately, and outside accountants...
Maroney felt his hair being tugged from behind. He raced forwards, five feet-ten feet--then he hit the stretched sheet. He was whirled violently and he offered no resistance, but his arm was being wrapped sort of up around his head. The music blared as he felt his legs go out from under him and his body hit the floor lengthwise. Then the crush...