Word: compaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...payoff, Filion's operation is relatively small-time. The vast majority of the 125 standardbreds he partially or wholly owns are inexpensive horses that he has picked up in claiming races.* In fact, Filion's admirers say, the "Little Iron Man"-as the cocky, compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) French Canadian is known-will race any combination of two wheels and four legs. One of Filion's alltime favorites was a horse called Rabbit, an equine outpatient that, as one railbird recalls, had "four lame legs and so many bone chips he sounded like...
...standards that the Detroit leviathans have tirelessly argued could not be met in time. Honda immediately informed the EPA that it is breaking ranks with most other car producers and would no longer seek a one-year postponement of the 1975 requirements. Company officials say that their compact car, the Civic, now marketed only in Japan, would carry the engine and go on sale...
...East. Novices can stem their way along the four-mile-long Toll Road; experts can plummet down the narrow, twisting chutes of the National or the Goat. Everyone can enjoy the eclectic night life, which runs from fierce rock to folk singing, in the restaurants and hotels of the compact, bustling village. The average cost of a week's vacation, including meals, moderately priced sleeping accommodations* and lift tickets, but not transportation, is around...
...Luxury Compacts. The boom reflects a peculiar consumer psychology: car buyers seem to be going for economy and luxury at the same time. They are concentrating their purchases on compact cars, which now account for just over one-third of the market, easily outselling the next most popular class, the intermediates, which have just over one-fifth. Some of the fastest sales increases this year have been reported for American Motors' Gremlin (up 40%), the Chevy Nova (up 33%) and the Plymouth Valiant (up 19%). But then the buyers are loading these relatively low-priced cars with expensive options...
CAVELL ATTEMPTS A GREAT DEAL in a rather slim volume, somewhere between a long, critical essay (he leaves many unanswered questions) and a compact, definitive thesis (he answers more questions that we ought to expect.) He has discovered an authentic American philosopher in the literary tradition right under our noses and he tries to show us how to approach Thoreau and his work, though it is written in a "language dead to degenerate times." He tries to shake our belief that we no longer need a book to tell our lost nation how to live. Cavell can be thoroughly confusing...