Word: do-it-yourself
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...they handled last year were personal cases. Slate charges his customers an average of $350 each and claims only $10 of that is profit. Some other lawyers in the city ask as little as $250, and it is possible (though risky) for individuals to handle their own bankruptcy cases with do-it-yourself forms. But Slate promises his clients that an attorney will oversee all key steps in the three-month bankruptcy process, including appearances in court-something most cut-rate lawyers often omit from their service...
...prices may skyrocket and energy crises come and go, but the winds will blow forever. In an effort to tap that inexhaustible source of energy, everyone, from NASA's skilled aerodynamicists to do-it-yourself basement tinkerers, is now suddenly rediscovering one of the oldest technologies known to civilized man: the use of the windmill...
...problem for artists who did not want to follow the usual pattern of expatriation was how to be both modern and at the same time American. Most modern American art from the teens and '20s had a homemade, do-it-yourself, rule-of-thumb look. Arthur Dove's was no exception, and some of his paintings, particularly in the mid-'30s, poignantly suggest an imagination hobbled by its lack of prototypes. But a certain naiveté and brusqueness were, in any case, bound up with Dove's sense of aesthetic probity. It was part of what...
Sales have been softest in such big-ticket items as major appliances and furniture. Less expensive, practical items like do-it-yourself auto tune-up kits and pocket calculators (which can now be bought for under $20) have been selling well. So, in general, have basic clothes -especially sweaters-although one executive at Baltimore's Hutzler Bros, notes that "the whole men's area is sick. The old man is the first one cut off the Christmas list...
Lucky Stars. In 1971 Chester and his five Case Western Reserve colleagues began feasibility studies on their plan-including a hard look at the group's prospects for hanging together for five whole years. They decided that their do-it-yourself project was indeed practical. After carefully selecting a site that was suitably high, dry and far from city lights in the Los Padres National Forest near Monterey, they dubbed their brainchild MIRA-the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy...