Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESCRIPTION: Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation's total reserve, 1982-1987; Color illustration: FSLIC building floating in life preserver...
...device uses 8-mm videocassettes, an increasingly popular format a mite bigger than their audio counterparts. The Video Walkman can record programs from its built-in TV receiver or from a home set, then play the tape on its 3- in. color screen. The new product will be released in the U.S. late this year. Expected retail price: about...
...voices; it acknowledges that the meaning of our . discourse, as of any symphonic composition, lies not in the units but in the pauses, the pacing and the phrasing. Punctuation is the way one bats one's eyes, lowers one's voice or blushes demurely. Punctuation adjusts the tone and color and volume till the feeling comes into perfect focus: not disgust exactly, but distaste; not lust, or like, but love...
...customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black," decreed an entrepreneur named Henry Ford in 1909. Nowadays shoppers browsing through a Ford showroom can choose models in everything from basic blue to racy red, but the founder's favorite color remains popular with the company's executives and shareholders. And with good reason: the profit-and- loss statements of Ford Motor Co. have lately come only in black...
...disputed issue were teacher's choices rather than the teacher's right to choose, there would be no threat to Harvard; after more reflection, better choices might be made. But the argument is that, in essence, ability, like hair color, is inherited and, like hair color, is unworthy of differential privilege. In this light, "education," in the sense of liberating one from prejudice, is agreed to be impossible and attempts to reward merit are rendered corrupt. Hence there is no reason not to ensure "equality of outcomes" for any population, whether of human beings or books...