Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going price for platinum sold by producers (about $120 per oz.), each new car sold with a platinum converter would contain about $12 worth of the substance. There also are geopolitical problems: the bulk of known platinum reserves lies in South Africa and the Soviet Union. Says Lester Krellenstein, a metals expert at the Manhattan brokerage house of Bache & Co.: "G.M. alone is experimenting with about 600 compounds to find another way to meet the emission standards...
This attitude manifests itself in "a lot of petty grievances that we refuse to bury," according to councillor Danehy. The typical meeting is certain to contain at least one attack by Danehy on Councillor Robert Moncreiff for "legal trickery," an outburst by Owens on the "unfairness" of the proceedings, and a long, humorously pointed anecdote by former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who is currently running for State Representative...
...Bryman School, headquartered in West Los Angeles, trains medical assistants at 14 locations across the country. Students are assigned only one book: a fat loose-leaf notebook that is supposed to contain all the knowledge the profession requires. As techniques change, new pages are inserted. Says President John Krebs: "We boil out all the nonessentials. We teach only those things that help a person get and keep a good job." Bryman places about 85% of its graduates in jobs and recently became the first proprietary school to have programs accredited by the American Medical Association...
...overtones of the bowed instruments) are responsible for a bizarre series of events leading to the cancellation of at least one concert this spring. (In attempting to compensate the distortion, a female pianist sprained her hand). And thus unhappily, the inner lines of the piano parts, which contain quite a bit of Brahmsian cross-rhythm and harmonic detail, were largely obscured. All violin and cello dynamics had to be raised one level, so that pianissimos were indelicate, and fortes often rasping. The overall result was a rather thick, monotonously undifferentiated texture most of the time...
...prices on the dinner menu are outrageously hiked from lunch. It does, however, contain an assortment of fish dishes. The salmon ($4.75) was bony and overcooked. Although delicately herbed, the sauce was runny and insipid. The Soft Shell Crabs ($4.95) came swimming in butter. What should have been the crispy claws and backs of these unusual creatures were soggy...