Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard H. Bolt, chairman of Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., sound experts; Franklin S. Cooper, president of Haskins Laboratories; James L. Flanagan, head of acoustics research at Bell Telephone Laboratories; John G. McKnight, audio and magnetic recording consultant; Thomas G. Stockham Jr., computer science professor at the University of Utah; and Mark R. Weiss, vice president for acoustics research of Federal Scientific Corp...
Wheelock Whitney, a Republican businessman in Minneapolis, is considering running as an Independent against Minnesota's Democratic Governor Wendell R. Anderson. Senator Richard S. Schweiker, a moderate Republican from Pennsylvania, has no plans to bolt the ticket next year, but he has already let the voters know that he is no friend of the White House. He began a recent radio interview: "Well, you know I was on the White House enemies list...
Leaving aside the problem that earlier in the book Cohen has disclosed that Aldrich 108 has no windows to shut and bolt, this just does not make it as well-handled prose. Perhaps reading all those cases that business school students must read (they are expected in the first year of the MBA program to read three cases or so a night, each case presenting a particular management situation or problem) has prevented Cohen from mastering a more expressive English prose style...
...result, manufacturing secrets rarely keep for long in Detroit. A few years ago, for example, Ford men concluded that a competitor was building a superior master brake cylinder. They designed a similar one, but modified it to use two bolts instead of four. Sure enough, two years later they found their two-bolt design appearing in the brake cylinders of the competitors' cars that they dismantled. At present, auto engineers are focusing particular attention on how rivals go about reducing the weight of their cars in order to placate a public increasingly concerned by the cost of gas guzzlers...
...followers listen closely to the rambling and often repetitive discourses of the Mahatmas, enthusiasm surfacing only in the chants they shout at the beginning and end of each speech. Sitting bolt upright, they seem to hang on to every word with a fascination that is almost childlike in its intensity. Their faith, founded on a common experience, is apparently unassailable as long as the experience remains...