Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit's Better...
...will not improve the performance of a rocking chair, it will not improve the efficiency of an automobile. Performance of a vehicle will not be affected until it reaches at least 50 m.p.h. With a national highway speed limit set at 55 m.p.h., aerodynamically "slippery" cars designed to achieve better fuel economy are meaningless...
What was more, the engineer said that Unit 2 had been plagued with glitches during its shakedown phase. "Nothing serious, but enough to suggest that both the reactor and we needed to get to know each other better." Instead of thoroughly studying the cause of the malfunctions, the engineer maintained, the plant "went commercial too quickly." The multiple problems should have been a warning, he said. "If the lights in your house blow out every time you turn on your toaster, you know something is wrong. You call the electrician." Questioned about the engineer's statements, Harold Denton...
...trying his best to beat some of our swords into plowshares, but inside Jimmy Carter is the same belief found in most Americans-that our might has done more to preserve modern peace than any other single force. While he argues for disarmament, Carter intends to devise new and better weapons...
...terms of earnings growth, oil companies have fared marginally better than industry as a whole. From 1977 to 1978, according to Data Resources, the earnings of all U.S. companies expanded by 15.9%, while those of domestic oil firms rose by 16.4%. For the international oil firms, however, the growth was much less, about 1%, as a result of the dollar's decline and price controls in foreign markets...