Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck which sat under his uncle's bedroom window. He raised the hood carefully, swearing at the rusty hinges which sang painful cat songs as he propped it up. A light snapped on in the house. Jesus, thought Bell, and groped for the distributor cap, fastening his alligator clip to it and grounding the other clip to the engine block. He slammed the hood and jumped in, put a cautious foot on the gas, and felt the engine pull itself to life. He began to back out, concentration on the rear view mirror and not looking at the window where...
...m.p.h. clip, on highways and convenient side roads, leaves time for savoring the sights and smells of roadside flowers, corn-and wheatfields, and taking in the brassy greetings of small-town high school bands. Any number on the train started out in the far West. "My great-great-grandmother walked from Iowa City to Salt Lake City pulling a handcart with four children in it," says Ed Porritt, 41, an artist from Green River, Wyo. "I think about that and get out of the wagon and walk every time I can. I figure I've walked 1,300 miles...
...first quarter of this year, business was heading back toward its pre-slump levels at a rapid clip-so rapid as to stir some fear that the economy might become overheated. Real gross national product-total output of goods and services discounted for inflation -surged ahead at an annual rate of 8.7%, astonishing for a huge, mature economy. Last week a "flash" estimate circulated within the Government that the real G.N.P. increase during the current quarter might slow to a rate of about 3%. While such early estimates are often unreliable, Alan Greenspan, President Ford's chief economic adviser...
...Boas and Steve Chain set out to write Big Mac: The Unauthorized Story of McDonald's they had their hands on what should have been the material for the modern success story. For McDonald's accomplishment has been compared to that of the man who invented the paper clip. They took the lowly beef patty and made an ideology out of it. How did dining under the heavenly golden arches become a transcendental experience, capturing national enthusiasm with a fervor surpassed only by the space program and World War II? How did just another greasy burger joint become a multinational...
...computer expert and lead us into what Grunwald describes as the "promised land of interface and input" sans the jargon. We are almost there today, thanks to Boyd, who developed a sophisticated computer-driven editing and typesetting system that processes copy at a 4,200-word-per-minute clip. Actually, Boyd retired once before, but was asked to come back. His second retirement date seems scarcely more credible than the first, but he insists, "This...