Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit...
...wintry cold had already rolled down the slopes of the Piedmontese Alps to Turin, once the quasi-Parisian capital of the house of Savoy and now the Detroit of Italy. Outside Gate 20 of Fiat's Mirafiore plant, a toothless peddler hawked candy that he caustically called "special nougats for the economic crisis." Emerging workers were in no mood for sick jokes, and they bought none of the candy. Instead, they turned to union men passing out notices of protest strikes called against Fiat's shortened week...
Side Panels. Ford also asked the automakers to achieve his goal of "a 40% increase in gasoline mileage" within a five-year deadline. That goal is possible, Detroit believes, only if the 1975 emission standards are not made any tougher (they are scheduled to become progressively more stringent in 1977 and 1978)-and if no new weight-adding safety standards (like stronger bumpers and side panels) are imposed. But Congress has shown no sign to date of being ready to ease the standards...
...alone can cause the bone to atrophy, or waste away. Chewing, mainly by those wearing dentures, can greatly accelerate the loss. For years doctors have dealt with mandibular atrophy-and with providing a better anchorage for false teeth -by painful and time-consuming bone and skin grafts. Now a Detroit oral surgeon may have found a better way. At a meeting of the American Society of Oral Surgeons in Las Vegas tins week, Dr. Irwin A. Small of Sinai Hospital of Detroit reported that he has developed an implantable device that provides a firm and almost instant anchor for dentures...
...most of the 40 patients who have been fitted with the device have had no problems at all. Robert O'Dwyer, 41, a Detroit mechanical engineer, went through several sets of false teeth after smasinng ins jaw in a 1957 automobile accident. He found them all so uncomfortable and unsatisfactory that he actually took them out winle eating. Since being fitted with a mandibular staple in 1969, he has eaten everytinng, including such hard-to-chew foods as carrots...