Word: do-it-yourself
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...railroad engineers and civil servants to bank clerks and garage mechanics-men who find commercial beer too extravagant for their budgets. The new duty would make home brew twice as costly as the regular commercial stuff. Quickly forming a pressure group grandly named the Amateur Brewers & Vintners Association, some 300 do-it-yourself braumeisters fired off a stiff protest to Welensky, pointing out that home brewing "has taken place in the United Kingdom for centuries, and as the British emigrated to the colonies, this tradition has been accepted as the birthright of the ordinary man by every government...
...Beauty Part, by S. J. Perelman. People used to listen to a Beethoven symphony without trying to identify with the composer. But in the age of do-it-yourself culture, everyman is his own self-discovered, self-expressing genius, though the self being expressed is frequently about as artistic as a defective drain. This is the play Humorist S. J. Perelman apparently began to write, and there are hints of it still ("Every housewife in the country has a novel under her apron"). Followed through, this might have led him to a bitingly comic examination of a serious question...
While the A.M.A. council shied away from recommending an overall cut in dietary fats, neither did it go so far as some do-it-yourself prescribers such as Dr. Herman (Calories Don't Count) Taller, who recommends a carefree 65% fat diet. The A.M.A. favors a balanced diet, with not more than 40% fats...
...diplomatic corps and other guests waiting a solid five hours while he, unable to delegate authority, was kept busy by economic negotiations. For another, many of the goods exhibited were still far from being in efficient mass production; RCA TV sets, for instance, were made by Egyptian workers from imported do-it-yourself kits at the rate of 200 a day, but only two or three locally produced cabinets were turned out daily. According to a typical Cairo joke, Nasser dies and goes to the Egyptian hell, but finds the place less terrifying than expected. Reason: because of a severe...
...cost me $100,000." Do-It-Yourself Merchandising. For all their open-shirted informality, this band of amateurs demonstrated a remarkable knack for gauging correctly the profitable trends in retailing. Under Ferkauf's endless prodding, they began to move into the rich markets of suburbia, added to their basic stock in trade-appliances-most of the lines of merchandise that department stores carry. Korvette's also began to put out its own private labels, from Kor-Val vitamins to the booming XAM stereo hi-fi line (named in a backward way after Max, an alley cat of Ferkauf...