Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herbs or lysine, an amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices has met with failure. If enough people have the problem...
...summer, due to an extraordinary stroke of luck, he was a Foreign Car Driver. Although he couldn't really afford a foreign car, he'd banged on the thing long enough to make it run in a Continental fashion. There were still four or five parts of the carburetor on the living room table, but they didn't fit anyway, and their absence didn't seem to make much difference...
...everyone, of course, is so euphoric about the coming robot age. Brian Carlisle, Unimation's general manager for West Coast research, warns that "we're a long way from a robot that can assemble a carburetor." Nor are robots a panacea for all the ills that industry is heir to. The most automated factory of its time was the Lordstown plant that GM designed to produce the unsuccessful Vega, evidence that productivity is not worth much if the product is hard to sell. As the robotmakers look ahead, though, they see a promised land. It is a land...
...modern land scape of bleak mining towns, rundown homesteads and rural junkyards. Keeble resonantly plays the present against the past, especially in descriptions of Erks' dangerous drive over the mountains and across deserts. There are intensely perceived set pieces: a dog battling a possum; a woman reassembling a carburetor with Zen-like grace; a Snopesian funeral in a field littered with rusty tractor parts and dominated by the sight and smell of a huge pig roasting on a spit...