Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average weight of its full-size models. This time the other automakers are following GM's lead, with the result that a 1978 full-size car will be about as big as a 1977 mid-size model, and a 1978 intermediate will look more like a 1977 compact...
Back to the Curies. Primitive variations of the treatment chosen by Blaschko date back to the turn of the century, when the Curies' discovery of radium made possible a radiation source compact enough to be placed within a tumor. Since then, the technique has been considerably refined and has long been used to treat certain cancers of the neck, head, vagina and other parts of the body difficult to cope with surgically. Now, U.S. doctors, confronted by 90,000 new cases of the disease a year, are showing an increased interest in the use of interstitial implants against breast...
Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are implied, not spelled out. Anyone who has followed Joan Didion's career as a magazine writer can easily discern the newsprint between her fine lines. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of her best magazine work, brought wide praise in 1968. With the publication of her novel Play...
...that in all the 23 years since it was created by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator* and Hudson Motor Car Co., the company has never been able to find a secure niche in the auto market. It prospered in the late 1950s by bringing out the first U.S. compact, the Rambler, but then lost much of its market share when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler started making compacts too. In the mid-1960s it tried to compete against the Big Three by offering a wider range of car sizes and lost disastrously. In 1970 A.M.C. again anticipated public taste...
...model run, Chapin plans some changes. A.M.C. will introduce a new luxury compact to compete with such cars as the Ford Granada and Dodge Aspen, and will give the Pacer a peppier engine. The Gremlin already comes with an option of a fuel-miserly four-cylinder power plant. The company, Chapin told shareholders, remains committed to small cars; he prophesied that the U.S. "will be a small-car nation by the 1980s...