Word: compacter
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...began about nine months ago when the cruisers arrived. Trolling around in cars is the all-American pastime, but California cruisers have transformed it into an elaborate ritual. Not just any car will do. The idea is to attract attention. Stereos, painted names and modified engines are routine. A compact pickup with giant wheels is better. A truly "clean ride" is a lowrider: a 1950s vintage General Motors car, lavishly decorated and fitted with a system of hydraulic lifts that allows it to be impressively raised or lowered...
...water from the bottom of the pond, and it was recirculated by other pipes and pumps back to the snowmaker. The water was then sprayed out onto the pile all over again, as slush, adding still more ice granules to the growing mound. After several weeks, a compact mound of ice about 30 ft. thick had been formed...
...higher yield than most of his fellow shrimp farmers, who average fewer than two harvests of approximately 300 to 400 lbs. each. In a laboratory up the coast from Shayne's ponds, experts work on secret methods for getting shrimp to produce more eggs; in another plant machines compact food similar to cattle feed so that it stays in one piece under water. Shrimp, it seems, like their food intact...
...content, Richard Nixon believes that "television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy." Nixon is a bruised witness, but he does have a point. Trying to compact a day's debate into 47 seconds and give it drama, a television reporter will pit the loudest advocate of a cause against its most outraged opponent. Onscreen, each will be shown talking away, but the words you hear are the reporter's, explaining what the story is really about. At last, the sound picks up a snippet of the speaker's own words. This irritating parody...
...with $1.7 billion in 1980 losses and no certainty that the Reagan Administration would answer the company's urgent pleas for $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Since then, Chrysler's sales have risen 23% over those of a year ago, and the plants that make the compact K-car are running on overtime. Now there is growing optimism at the company's Highland Park, Mich., headquarters that in the three-month period ending June 30, Chrysler may break even or perhaps show a small profit. If so, that would mark the first time since December...