Word: containers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company plans to appeal the verdict; the final outcome is expected to influence similar suits. Moreover, collective bargaining agreements made by other companies in the past two years contain disability-pay clauses contingent on the outcome of the GE decision. If it should favor women, group insurance rates for employers nationwide would be increased considerably...
...once took half a dozen or more vacuum tubes, crammed into a bulky cabinet, to make an ordinary household radio. Today, postage-stamp-size electronic "chips," or integrated circuits, contain all the parts needed for far more complex electronic devices ranging from pocket calculators to missile guidance systems. But even these miracles of miniaturization may look gargantuan alongside the circuitry of the future. Scientists are now talking about turning individual molecules into electronic components...
...director Nick Harris's production is not intended to be a carbon copy of the Athenian Helen, originally presented in 412 B.C. the 1692-line original, which would have lasted about three hours without intermissions, has been cut by approximately two-thirds. These cuttings are skillful--the portions that contain the most action and intensity of feeling have been retained, as have (with minor deletions) the long soliloquies...
...down only a trifle. While that would scarcely be an achievement to crow about, it would mark a considerable improvement over the first quarter. Still, the persistence of galloping inflation presents Simon and other federal planners with a cruel dilemma: they must somehow find ways to contain the price rises without restraining the economy so much as to abort a recovery from the weak first quarter...
Several principals were less than enthusiastic about this game plan, although no successful student takeovers were reported. The supplementary materials prepared by Brown, Researcher Elizabeth Rudulph, and occasionally by TIME writers, are geared toward the teacher, but the pamphlets also contain selections designed to be duplicated and distributed to students as well. A year ago, Brown instituted Fragments, a magazine to which student subscribers contribute poetry, cartoons, and answers to questions like: "Do you agree with a University of Massachusetts professor that 'the grading system is the most destructive, demeaning and pointless thing in American education'?" (Most students...