Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-distance runner. Ruminating and running, Block, 46, looked as cool as an Illinois-grown cucumber as he glided across the finish line of the 85th Boston Marathon in 3 hr. 6 min. 49 sec. Still, Block was well to the rear of Toshihiko Seko, 24, a compact Japanese import who set a U.S. marathon record of 2:09:26, and New Zealander Allison Roe, 24, who came from down under and well back in the pack of 6,845 runners to set a new women's course record of 2:26:46. Block lists determination and endurance...
...planned for Spacelab. Among them: investigations into the behavior of metals, chemicals and even living cells in what scientists call the microgravity of orbit, the familiar condition of weightlessness. Some student experiments will be carried up as well, probably as part of NASA'S so-called getaway specials, compact canisters as small as 1.5 cu. ft. that can be placed on a flight for as little as $3,000. One young man recently announced he intended to use such an experimental package to see if fruit flies breed in space. What will be next...
...much burlesque as carefully paced intellectual striptease. Male armor is dropped to exhibit emotional paralysis; egos wrapped in tough independence are peeled away to show a tender reliance; Playboy fantasies dissolve in humiliating complications. In addition, the author has an original way of derailing conventional narratives with a compact, satiric prose and ripe perceptions. "I feel you're feeling anger," says the host to his enraged wife. It is one of Michaels' many punch lines in this small marvel of modern comic irony...
...something about the industry's malaise by attempting to put together a plan that would help get Detroit back on its feet, with aid and direction from Washington. It is tinkering with a proposal worked up late in the Carter Administration for the development of a three-way "compact" among industry, labor and Government to restore the health of the carmakers. In broad terms, the Reagan Administration aims to use a promise of a curb on Japanese imports as a carrot to get all of Detroit to accept the kind of changes in traditional ways of doing business that...
...automakers and the U.A.W. join the compact, the Administration says, it will try to negotiate restrictions with the Japanese, who last year brought in 1.9 million vehicles and garnered a record 21% of U.S. auto sales. The Administration is suggesting that it will get the Japanese to accept an import limit of about 1.7 million cars annually-if Detroit falls in line quickly. Reagan wants to have the industry concessions in hand and an agreement negotiated with Japan before May, when Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki is scheduled to visit Washington...