Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present arrangement, overwhelmingly approved by the voters in every election since it was adopted in 1952, will probably be changed somewhat this year. A joint commission headed by Muñoz and former Kentucky Senator Marlow Cook and strongly sup ported by the Hernandez government, has proposed a new compact, which is now be ing discussed in Congress. The island would be explicitly recognized as a sovereign entity voluntarily choosing union with the U.S. Puerto Ricans would remain U.S. citizens but, unless they live on the mainland, still could not vote for fed eral offices. Most important, Puerto Rico would...
...those Puerto Ricans who want U.S. statehood argue that the compact is a cosmetic means of perpetuating the island's present dependency and strengthening the Hernandez regime. Mean while, those who want full independence say that it is merely an other disguise for colonialism. The new compact will go to a referendum-if Congress acts by midsummer, then the vote will be later this year-and it is expected to pass overwhelmingly...
...from the massive dialysis machines that purge her blood of the toxic wastes her kidneys are no longer able to remove. Yet during her 16-day trip, she shunned kidney centers entirely. Her unexpected freedom was the result of a remarkable new device: a portable mechanical kidney so compact it is built into a small metal valise...
There are touches of faded elegance still in Buenos Aires, and an occasional comic interlude: Antonio Cafiero, the strangely cheerful Minister of the Economy, is explaining to TIME how he is about to negotiate with the unions "a dynamic social compact" that should help stabilize wages and prices for some months. Unannounced, a fellow in an electric-blue gym suit bursts in from a side door and seats himself. He turns out to be the head of the C.G.T., the AFL-CIO of Argentina. A few minutes later, from a different side door, the head of the metallurgical workers union...
...allowed Bloomingdale's full rein to exploit what it has long seen as its major market: young, affluent, fashion-conscious, traveled, professional people. They are attuned less to refrigerators and washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale's profit, go for such baubles as yogurt makers, $30 peanut-butter-making machines, "male chauvinist pig" neckties (30,000 sold so far) and even "Pet Rocks" that, at $4 each, roll over and play dead...