Word: compaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vidal is also capable of delivering compact and provocative insight. On cliché analogies between the Roman Empire and the United States, for example: "I should not look to Rome for comparison but rather to the Most Serene Venetian Republic, a pedestrian state devoted to wealth, comfort, trade and keeping the peace, especially after inheriting the wreck of the Byzantine Empire, as we have inherited the wreck of the British Empire...
Chapin's corporate philosophy is that "there is always a place for someone who can do things a little bit differently." In developing AMC's compact Hornet in 1969, being a little different meant designing a car that would also serve as the basis for the company's entry in the subcompact sweepstakes. Instead of designing a whole new subcompact, as GM did with its Vega and Ford with the Pinto, American Motors spent a remarkably low $5,000,000 and simply cut down the Hornet. As a result, the company produces the only subcompact with...
...Ohio, for example, recently signed a threeyear, $1,000,000 contract with a private collection firm that will save the city an estimated $350,000. This week, for the first time in its history, Chicago will have a private firm process some of its refuse; Waste Management, Inc., will compact and dump into its own landfill up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Other cities that have turned over all or part of their garbage business to private hands include Boston, Omaha, Detroit, Dallas and Charleston, S.C. Indeed, only bureaucratic lethargy and union opposition prevent more cities from...
While there has been an overall decline in Harvard Summer School course enrollment. 200 students registered for Chem S-20, the compact course in organic chemistry offered last summer...
...mention "the computers," represent "mankind tyrannized by the work of his own hands." Furthermore, he sees "objectivity," the scientific act of knowledge, as an act of alienation, if not of sacrilege. "Break faith with the environment," reads Roszak's version of the scientist's Faustian compact, "and you will surely gain power...