Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These builders blame the overruns on poor planning by the admirals. Repeated changes in specifications, for instance, have been made after a contract has been negotiated and even while the ship was being built. According to Electric Boat, this plan-as-you-build technique caused at least 40,000 alterations in the design of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Most of these changes created a ripple effect, because shifting the location of one piece of equipment usually meant modifying dozens of other parts of the ship...
...system of rule that best balanced the claim of the citizen to be free and happy and the need for the state to maintain order. Essentially, democracy depends not on law and the law-enforcing arm of the state but on the willingness of citizens to accept an unwritten contract, a contract between the rational and the atavistic in themselves. When democratic order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then democracy itself is impaired. The more draconian become the measures whereby kidnapers and skyjackers are kept down, the more the democratic world itself is moving toward...
...agreement between the team owners and the Players' Association emasculated the famed reserve clause by allowing a player to become a free agent by playing out one option year after the expiration of his contract...
...been jinxed from the start. When Richard Nixon gave the go-ahead in 1971, its cost was projected at $699 million. Seven years later the price tag is $2.2 billion and ground has yet to be broken in the Tennessee valley. What's more, the architectural firm given the contract for the project wrote in a 1973 report that Clinch River was "one of the worst sites ever selected for a nuclear power plant based on its topography and rock conditions." And with the increased amounts of uranium now available, the advantages of the breeder--namely its need for less...
...professionals who warm up like toaster coils in the course of the production. Jack Buchanan, as the director, is a portrait in Orson Welles-like pomposity and does some hoofing to match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts dreamed up by screenwriters Comden and Green, Oscar Levant and Nannette Fabray star as two writers who carry on like--who else? Comden and Green...