Word: compacter
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...have the Americans paused to reflect that an alliance in which all the advanced and sophisticated technologies were left to one of the partners, and the rest were relegated to supply a complement of conventional arms in war, and in commerce a modest contribution of Scotch whisky and compact cars . . . would not ul timately succeed in retaining the loyalty of European electors...
...people of the states are extremely conscious of this usurpation of the Constitutional rights of the states, but much needs to be done to awaken the states to their perilous condition. There is a crying need for the states to organize into a compact, expressing the feeling of the states with reference to these usurpations, the consequent destruction of our Constitutional form of government, and presenting a common front against such unconstitutional encreachment by the federal government...
...model, a kind of compact copter, has a cruising speed of 70 m.p.h., a maximum speed of 86 m.p.h., a range of 200 miles and an endurance of three hours in the air. Special effects include a 360° visibility, a tinted canopy to protect against sun glare, and air-oil shock-absorbing landing skids that "smooth out" the roughest terrain. It is also economical-13? a mile by Hughes's estimate. With 53 dealers already signed up and expectations of many more, Hughes has stepped up production to one copter a day, confident the idea will soon catch...
...millionth of a second. The surge in the company's 1962 sales was not because any single product was a bestseller, but because H.-P.'s fertile research department turned out so many new products to sell. Rangy (6 ft. 5 in.) Dave Packard and compact (5 ft. 10 in.) Bill Hewlett decided to go into business together while both were studying at Stanford University under famed Electrical Engineering Professor Frederick E. Terman. They set up their company in the shadow of Stanford to be near Terman and Stanford's vast research services. Their first sale...
...reason for the popularity of AMC stock was its compact price. Even at last week's high, American Motors sold for less than half the cheapest of the Big Three stocks; yet its 10-to-1 price-earnings ratio was as good or better than the bigger automakers could boast. Another attraction to investors was the fact that AMC is one of the few big U.S. industrial corporations with no long-term debt to worry about; since its brush with bankruptcy in the early 1950s, the company has totally paid off its once crushing burden of debt, and such...