Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of whether federal regulators work too closely with the industry they regulate to remain as critical as they should be. Certainly the DC-10 was rushed into production in the early 1970s in a successful race to catch up with the TriStar, its main rival. Were corners cut by both the manufacturer and its watchdogs in the heat of competition...
Daugherty's worries, which are also held by some in the industry, are by no means proof that corners were cut, but they do raise troublesome questions about the complicated relationship between the aviation interests and their regulators. The manufacturers, the airlines and the FAA all are striving for safety, yet the evidence stemming from the DC-10 debacle is that procedures should be tightened even more, despite the excellent safety record of the industry. In the era of the wide-bodied jet, any failure can be a disaster...
...first film director, began shaping the image from which she never quite escaped. "Through my professional creations," she once said, "I became, in a sense, my own child." She was not permitted her first romantic screen kiss until 1927, 18 years after she came to the movies. When she cut off her long golden curls and bobbed her hair, flapper-style, a year or so later, it caused a national furor. "You would have thought I murdered someone, and perhaps 1 had, but only to give her successor a chance to live...
...basic series of units for a one-family home costs about $2,000 and saves only about $40 a year in fuel bills. The promising new frontier is photovoltaics, the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity by using silicon-crystal panels. Though the price of photovoltaic cells has been cut in half since 1975, the cost is still $9 per watt,*equal to a staggering $40,000 for a one-family home. Still, advances are being made in the efficiency of panels and methods to store power at night. Last month, Texas Instruments claimed one breakthrough that should lower...
...rise in precious metals is also powered by a lack of supply. The U.S. Government sells gold to support the dollar; but since the greenback has strengthened this year, traders figure that Washington might call off its gold auctions. Last month the Treasury cut its monthly offerings in half to 750,000 ounces, and the International Monetary Fund has reduced its monthly sales slightly, to 444,000 ounces. "Combine those two, and you take out almost 20% of supply," says a U.S. gold analyst.Soviets, who earned $2.6 billion the sale of 13.8 million ounces of gold through the Wozchod Bank...