Word: dented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...layer, 2½-lb. undervest-most popular with police because it scarcely impedes movement-will turn back a knife attack and anything up to a .38-cal. bullet, which accounts for 90% to 95% of all handguns in the U.S. A .38-cal. cartridge, for instance, will put a dent in the Kevlar (see cut), but the knit layers absorb the shock, leaving the imprint of the weave on the slug as it blunts into mushroom-shape and then falls harmlessly away. Small wonder that President Ford was reported wearing Kevlar on the New Hampshire hustings and that...
...determined to regain his health and vindicate his presidency. Both may be uphill struggles, but friends and associates who have visited Nixon's San Clemente estate or talked to him by telephone praise his scrappy spirit. "There's no hangdog attitude about him," reports Harry Dent, one of Nixon's past political advisers. "He sounds like the old Nixon-still interested in politics and everything that's going on." Adds Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman, who often gets phone calls from Nixon: "The man is tough. All his life, whenever he gets slapped down, he gets...
...Scientific Data Systems, a California-based mainframe maker. Now the copying-machine giant is just as anxious to get out; last week it announced that it would stop making basic computers over the next year or so, thus joining the list of corporate giants that have failed to dent the computer market dominated by IBM (others: General Electric, RCA). Xerox deducted from second-quarter earnings $84.4 million in estimated costs for discontinuing the computer business, reducing its net for the period to a mere $4.2 million, down more than 95% from a year earlier...
...there is a complication that no one can understand. Commemorative china plates issued in high-priced limited editions by the schlock art industry -displaying grackles by Boehm, farmhouses by Wyeth, Wedgwood heads of Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent, and so on-have become the back-up currency of the overheated U.S. economy. Another complication is that Athena, Apollo, that bisexual twit Hermes, and Zeus, 42 ft. tall but disguised, more or less, as a skirt-chasing municipal court judge, have settled in above a Greek restaurant on 18th Street, hoping to get some of the action...
...Vietnamese breadwinners who are legally entering the U.S. will scarcely make a dent in the job market. But the nation's unemployment problem is being aggravated by a far greater number of people who have slipped into the U.S. illegally, either by stealing across the borders or by overstaying their visas. Despite its economic and social difficulties, the U.S. remains the promised land-but only 400,000 people were able to immigrate legally last year. Many more successfully evaded the law, and they make up a monumental migraine for the understaffed and overburdened Immigration and Naturalization Service. In fiscal...