Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community vulnerable to the marauding Norsemen on the far, cold Isle of lona. Describing a now lost manuscript whose splendor probably approached that of the Book of Kells, Giraldus Cambrensis, a 12th century scholar, declared: "You will make out intricacies so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." The Book of Kells is and no doubt always will be the most sophisticated work of decorative art in the history...
...less capital than its competitors with which to develop new models and reduce the size of its cars in order to meet future stringent fuel-economy standards. But it did scrape up the money to bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord...
...million to 12 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. might seem like the answer to the impossible dream. Soon, perhaps this week, the Administration will deliver its long-awaited package to Congress in finished form. There it is certain to be the focus of fierce debate. Although the compact, 20-page bill was still being refined last week, its major-and most debatable-feature is the amnesty provision. Many fear that it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to cross the border, adding to the burden on al ready overtaxed U.S. services and taking more jobs that might...
...have a compact with the dead. But if I could get this man, my soul would finally be at peace." So says Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter of Vienna. Since his liberation from Mauthausen death camp in 1945, Wiesenthal, now 68, has dedicated his life to avenging the victims of Hitler's Holocaust by tracking down more than 1,100 of their murderers. Yet the most sadistic Nazi war criminal of all has eluded his grasp...
...sites for building; in many places that expense is becoming as heavy a burden as the price of the raw land. George F. Schoeck, a bank executive in Morris County, N.J., gives this example: "A builder used to put in a 28-foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1½ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing...