Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Antonio was rudely awakened from what city officials referred to as a "cheap energy drunk." Curtailments of gas forced the city to adopt emergency conservation measures, including converting the city's electrical power generators to higher-cost fuel oil and reducing street lighting. For the past five years, an average of 156 people a day have telephoned or visited the city utility offices asking for some kind of relief or further credit or, at least, that their gas not be shut...
...Lebanese civil war, faced a more serious problem: the difficulty, and even the danger, of working and living in a country torn by internal strife. Although most of the people he met and came to know were very friendly, he did find out that "life is very cheap" in the country as a whole, "and everybody gets used to it." He learned that lesson abruptly one day when, after a small automobile accident on a city street, the two drivers got out and began to fight--until one pulled out a gun, and shot and killed the other...
Still, much of the trust's growth is the result of Ball's ability to buy or start businesses cheap and build them into moneymakers. For example, there is the estate's controlling interest in St. Joe Paper Co., which Ball founded and expanded until today it is practically a private holding company itself. St. Joe controls a score of paper mills and boxmaking plants in the U.S., Britain and Ireland, two profitable railroads, the Florida East Coast and the Apalachicola Northern, and owns 23% of Charter Co., a Jacksonville-based conglomerate that is in myriad undertakings...
...present a personal air of courtliness, especially to women. As a manager, he leaves operating details to underlings and sticks close to - financial matters, stacking trust records in cardboard boxes in his office. He lives frugally, owns only four suits, and long ago he bought up a batch of cheap dime-store spectacles with progressively thicker lenses that he keeps in his office safe. After each working day, Ball holds court at his apartment, downing ginger ale and bourbon and spinning yarns for his cronies. It is a life that suits him, and until he "crosses the creek," he intends...
...medical technology. Introduced in 1976 by Vita-Stat Inc. of Tierra Verde, Fla., and now produced by other firms as well, the coin-operated gadgets have appeared in some 1,300 shopping malls, drug and department stores, factories and hospital lobbies across the country. They are not only cheap and fast -a reading takes a little more than a minute-but impressively accurate. Comparing their results with those obtained by conventional means, Dr. Joseph Chadwick, director of the health-systems program at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park, Calif, concluded that the machines are "more consistent...