Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only when he broods on the wasteful internal combustion engine that MacArthur comes as close as he knows how to discouragement. "We won't get out of the gasoline car till we're driven out with whips," he says. One night, when the Department of Commerce and a couple or three Government agencies had failed to answer MacArthur's latest jeremiads - in which he likes to point out that there is, in fact, an Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Development Act on the books (and when are the feds going to do more than press release...
...ever after, he catered to the small-time player. At both his Reno and Lake Tahoe gaming resorts, Harrah used computers to track daily profits and detect betting-table swindles. He also hired guards to watch for cheaters from high catwalks and through one-way ceiling mirrors. An antique-car buff, he opened a museum outside Reno that houses 1,400 vintage automobiles maintained by 150 mechanics...
...happens, it happens. But if you give up, they win." Cortesire-Ruoi FREY fuses to hire bodyguards, yet he tries to keep his movements unpredictable. He never buys his newspaper from the same stand, never makes airline or hotel reservations in advance and uses taxis rather than a company car...
Nearly all companies have taken steps to protect their officers. Fiat is reported to have prepared a highly confidential booklet for some 3,000 executives, "advising standard precautions such as varying daily travel, watching for suspicious strangers and carefully checking one's car. A group of 50 heads of small-and medium-size businesses in northern Italy have organized themselves into a modern version of the tontine, a primitive 17th century insurance company. They have put together a mutual-benefit ransom society so that if any member is held hostage, all participants will put up cash...
...road southeast of Paris, a car lurched out of control and crashed into a tree. The driver and two of his passengers were injured; the fourth was killed instantly. When news of the tragedy emerged, the only appropriate word was one that the dead man had made famous: absurd...