Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to go its own way with remarkable success. Guerrilla movements were generally unable to mobilize the territory's 5.7 million blacks against the white-dominated government. Sanctions voted by Britain and the United Nations were largely ignored by countries that saw profits in Rhodesian tobacco, beef and chrome. But 18 months ago, a guerrilla movement called ZANU (for Zimbabwe African National Union) caught hold on the rich agricultural plateau overlooking the Zambezi valley in the north. Since then, a bitter guerrilla war has claimed nearly 500 lives...
...United States, Portugal and South Africa are the three countries that import Rhodesian goods in violation of the U.N. resolution. The U.S. originally voted in favor of the sanctions, but pressure soon mounted from American steel producers who preferred Rhodesia's low-priced chrome to the inflated prices they then paid for the Soviet Union's shipments. Finally, in 1971, Congress relented to the pressure. Under the Byrd Amendment to the 1972 Procurement Authorization Act, the U.S. can import Rhodesian goods designated as "strategic" in importance. The amendment originally allowed for importing chrome alone, but the strategic definition has since...
...small cars proliferate, they are getting flashier; Detroit remains stubbornly convinced that car buyers want luxury along with fuel economy. More and more small cars now sport such features as velour upholstery, vinyl roofs, simulated-wood instrument panels, even chrome-plated grilles and hood ornaments. Such features are pushing prices up close to what drivers used to pay for big cars; a Plymouth Valiant two-door hardtop with all those features, plus three-speed windshield wipers, folding armrest and several other amenities, lists at the factory for about $3,500. Drivers are buying cars plain and fancy, low-and high...
...best friend, who is similarly sympathetic. The fact that his friend was also his mistress's husband only adds a little piquancy to the situation. Awash in forgiveness, the hapless killer has only one logical object for his mounting horror and self-loathing. His home, all glass and chrome and odd, abrupt angles, makes a suitably antiseptic moral landscape for the film, which is implacably smooth and elegant in the telling. Among Chabrol's finest work...
...models are rolling into showrooms around the U.S. with little of the chrome-plated mystique and high public excitement of old. Annual styling changes have been de-emphasized, and attention is being focused on driving safety and clean air. But if the hoopla of other seasons is conspicuous by its absence, car makers are no less concerned about the public's reaction to their products. Detroit executives almost unanimously expect a general economic slackening to slow the industry's blistering sales pace from a record 11.7 million cars this year to 11 million or fewer in 1974. Which...