Word: buzz-saw
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...industry has suffered more from weak domestic markets and buzz-saw foreign competition this year than steel. Nonetheless, steel mills last week announced price increases that clustered around 5.5% to take effect early in 1978. The increases come just when the Carter Administration is putting the finishing touches on a plan to offer financial aid to the ailing industry and sharply reduce the flow of cut-price foreign steel into the U.S. But the Administration reacted to the price boosts mildly, indicating that American mills will not be battered by the presidential jawbone?...
...come to expect a climax in the things we view, and usually a happy one. We are indignant if Superman allows Lois Lane to be undone by a buzz-saw, or if the U.S. Calvary and Rin Tin Tin don't beat the shit out of the Indians. So one's sense of propriety was jarred this weekend when Cooney Weiland's illustrious hockey career ended not with Harvard's first NCAA championship, but with an unbelievable 6-5 loss to Minnesota, and then a 1-0 defeat the next afternoon. Where was God, or Cecil DeMille for that matter...
Since 1820, loggers have turned 85% of the redwood forests into building materials. While enlightened lumber companies have long practiced selective logging and reforestation, some still buzz-saw heedlessly through stands of trees that may have been saplings at the time of Christ's birth. Where once the redwoods covered nearly 2,000,000 acres, today only 300,000 acres of virgin trees are left, including 50,000 acres sequestered in scattered state parks...
Hush Money. Apart from pool rentals, the studio enriched the Connecticut economy in several other ways. A buzz-saw operator whose activities were marring the sound track was paid $200 to knock it off for the day. This in turn sent everybody and his mother out into the yards for miles around with everything from compressors to power mowers, looking for further hush money. This week 175 members of the Lake Club of New Canaan are scheduled to share the loot as extras. It's not that they need the $5 a day; it's the glimpse...
...Purchio, scouted twelve Western states last summer, reported temptingly that the West was still wild and wide open for any candidate who moved fast. At the Sun Valley Western Governors' conference .TIME, Oct. 12) Brown tried unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California has ever heard of Pat Brown," he told Columnist Joseph Alsop. "And if nobody's ever heard of you, how the hell...