Word: compacter
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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...
...staggering $79 million loss for the third quarter. John Riccardo, Chrysler's chairman, predicts that the company will run in the black in the fourth quarter, paced by sales of its Cordoba, a mid-size Chrysler introduced last year, and its new Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen compact models...
Teevens, who clicked on eight of ten passes for 150 yards, boosted the Dartmouth edge to 14-0 midway through the first quarter. The compact chucker hooked up with split end Scott Brewster for a 15-yd. touchdown toss. Steve St. Clair then added the second of three extrapoints he was to garner during the afternoon...
...some time the partners in this compact shrugged off accountability to their respective communities--perhaps with the simplistic kind of rationale offered by a source in Holyoke Center: "If this were the government of South Vietnam, let's say, we might have something to be ashamed about...
Before leaving for work, Doug takes a brief stroll down the narrow path to the bottom of his garden. Barrel-chested and brisk-gaited, as befits a onetime gymnast, he is a compact man who gives his height as "5 ft., buggerall" but is more like 5 ft. 5 in. He pauses to check his tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, beans, potatoes and onions. "These are my pride and joy," he says. "I look after them like my union members...