Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surpluses and strains confronting OPEC may be only temporary because they are created largely by the widespread recession. If the rest of the world is to bend or break the cartel, the pressure on OPEC must be continued. And the only effective means of doing that is through tough mandatory conservation measures and quotas or taxes on oil imports...
...Horse Shoe Bend, Idaho (pop. 700), Theodore Hoff Jr. closed his Hoff Lumber Co. mill last month because sales had fallen through the floor boards. In all, 325 workers were laid off, devastating the town's economy. Those workers-plus 80 more Hoff employees at a mill in Rexburg, Idaho-got together and figured out a plan to return to work. They decided to take a 10% pay cut, put off a scheduled 9% cost of living increase, and eliminate overtime pay. Result: by last week both the Horse Shoe Bend and Rexburg mills were working two shifts...
...guitar, notes can bend, slide and wave. Sounds can glide through all the frequencies between two fixed pitches-just as the human voice does-enabling Sear's musical clone to produce any sound imaginable. Moreover, the guitar can now match a keyboard Moog's titanic output decibel for decibel. In live performance, the complex studio wall synthesizer with its winking lights and patchcord jungle can be replaced by a portable console...
Merely being able to look back over her shoulder brings great satisfaction to Debra Tietz, 19, a beautician in Cottage Grove, Minn. For nearly seven years, she could not bend her neck or back: her torso was held rigid from the chin to the pelvis by a cumbersome steel and leather brace. Debra was the victim of scoliosis, or abnormal curvature of the spine. The brace, which she was finally able to discard last year, not only straightened her back but may well have saved her life...
...prospects of scoliosis victims. A major advance has been the development of mass-testing procedures for use in the schools. Delaware, through a program involving the Alfred I. du Pont Institute and the state board of health, routinely checks schoolchildren with a simple test: the youngsters are asked to bend at the waist and touch their knees with their fingertips; a curvature will usually produce a visible fullness on one side of the rib cage or the other. In most Minnesota schools, nurses and physical education teachers regularly check youngsters in the fifth through tenth grades. Testing is also routinely...