Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Businessmen also suspect that they will be asked to bear the chief burden of Carter's anti-inflation policies, due out this week (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and his energy conservation program, which is expected to be announced next week. These fears are partly responsible for tumbling stock prices and the sluggishness of capital investment. The businessmen want Carter to press Congress harder for an increase in the investment-tax credit to rev up the economy...
...good buddies" are sure learnin' fast how to outfox Smokey the Bear. The sophisticated way to beat speeding tickets is to use a miniaturized radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...
...system that shows little regard for the concept of neighborhood and consciously mixes the poor South Boston Irish, traditionally hostile to blacks, and the economically and socially deprived of Roxbury. The results were predictable. Moreover, little constructive purpose was served by playing chess with the groups least able to bear the burden of dislocation and change. There lies the true hypocrisy in Lupo's mind, for the educated and enlightened liberals of the belt suburbs disappeared when they were most needed. Without a plan including the suburbs--a blueprint for social change involving richer communities and their educational facilities--integration...
Davis expects his work to bear out the prevalent belief that the universe is not massive enough to draw itself back together, and will continue expanding indefinitely. But Davis says he thinks "it would be aesthetically pleasing" if the universe were heavy enough to someday stop expanding. Current estimates put the mass of the universe at about one-tenth that necessary to pull everything back together. Davis expects to find a higher estimate, but still only 20 to 30 per cent of the necessary mass...
...Tyler Moore, a friend telephoned me to ask how I felt about my puppets becoming part of the language. I couldn't be happier (or more flattered) with your choice of "Kuklapolitan" to describe the charm and innocence of MTM. I shall miss those good friends who do bear a resemblance to Kukla's troupe (I've always thought) in their love and respect for each other...