Word: braked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ones changed. Even such basic industries as steel, which once sold products only to fabricators, now try to recognize the uses new alloys or materials can be put to, and aim their research at end products for the consumer. Says Edward Green, vice president of Westinghouse Air Brake: "Companies must become more oriented not only to what the customer wants today but also to what he'll want five years from...
...French, having Gallicized what they found useful to borrow, have pushed it hard at home and proselytized for it throughout Europe, Le Plan is a form of state economic planning, somewhere between Western capitalism and socialism. It is becoming a favorite device in Western Europe, designed to expand business, brake inflation and put critically short capital resources to the most productive uses...
...device looks like one of the ultra-highspeed modern dental drills, and is driven by compressed air. The air power is a big safety factor; it permits surgeons to use the drill around explosive anesthetics without fear of sparks. But whereas most dental drills are controlled by a foot brake, the new model has a fingertip on-off control. It can turn up to 100,000 revolutions per minute and come to a dead stop in a fraction of a second. Its carbide burs will drill a neat hole or, if moved sideways, work like a power saw. The burs...
...duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt on a neat styrene card with one's name on it certifying, so to speak, one's right to exist. What satisfaction I take in appearing the first day to get my auto tag and brake sticker! I subscribe to Consumer Reports and as a consequence I own a first-class television set, an all-but-silent air conditioner and a very long-lasting deodorant. My armpits never stink. I pay attention to all spot announcements on the radio about mental health, the seven signs of cancer...
...priority of demand and investment is still around. But liberals have shown a growing tendency to recognize the vital economic importance of investment and of the factors that investment depends upon?profits, savings, individual incentive. Along with this shift has come an awareness that burdensome taxes act as a brake upon economic growth. Businessmen have long maintained that the upper-bracket tax rates are economically pernicious, but it is a refreshing novelty when the A.F.L.-C.I.O. officially suggests, as it did a fortnight ago, that the top tax rate be slashed from the present...