Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line. But the slower speeds allow workers more time for the job at hand, and as a result the parts fit snugly and the screws are tight. Each Toyota worker is also a kind of one-man inspection unit. If he sees something amiss, he can pull a red cord that stops the whole assembly line. Until recently, any U.S. worker who halted the assembly line was courting dismissal...
...despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked, split and stacked their own supply of wood for the winter. In my town, for instance, there is a meadow in which stand, drying nobly, seven two-cord stacks of firewood. Clearly the fabricator of these splendid piles will be warm not only through the winter ahead, which all agree will be unusually cold, but even through the dark and dread winter of the year after next...
...help with the California Governor's campaign, she offered to recruit volunteers in Portland's Multnomah County. She was on her phone so much, running up monthly $200 phone bills, that her banker husband bought her a shoulder resting device and an extra long cord so that she could cook while she talked. Says she: "My children never went hungry. Of course, I left a lot of notes for them when they came home saying, 'Here's your lunch.' " Her reward: Reagan won a respectable 20% of the vote in the state...
...knows what causes multiple sclerosis, and there is no known cure for it. A degenerative disease of the central nervous system, MS destroys patches of myelin, the fatty tissue that forms a protective sheath around the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This interferes with the flow of nerve impulses, much in the way that faulty insulation can cause electrical shortcircuits...
...they can pour out millions of infectious virus particles. The victim may become feverish and, in the case of women especially, experience a sharp burning during urination. In about ten days the sores heal, but the viruses do not go away. They retreat to nerves near the lower spinal cord, remaining there for the life of the victim. Under pressure of stress, menstruation or sudden change in temperature, they can return without warning-weeks, months or years after the first occurrence. Sometimes they never come back...