Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glashow synthesized nitrogen tetra-iodide, an extremely unstable compound which explodes when anything is dropped on it, and took to soaking dollar bills in nitric acid. This turns the dollar bill into flashpaper, which burns very rapidly and leaves no ash. Glashow gave this up when it became too expensive...
...Dollar totals, however, are only one way to measure the growth of the Credit Society. To graybeards raised in a cash economy, the proliferation of goods and services that can be bought with credit is even more startling. Houses, cars, furniture, appliances, airline tickets barely begin the list. Rents at the Promenade Apartments in Los Angeles, ski-lift tickets in Aspen, Colo., taxi rides in St. Louis, veterinary services in Jacksonville, and treatment in the emergency rooms of Atlanta's hospitals can all be charged on credit cards. So can admission to a nudist camp in Yugoslavia, birth-control...
...million-dollar newscaster, Barbara Walters, is "miscast in the anchor spot" and should "withdraw from the news show," declared TV Guide in an editorial. Has Barbara really been doing all that badly? After all, ABC's Nielsen rating has gone up half a point in the nearly five months since Walters went on the evening news. Still, news viewing is up in general, and ABC'S share of the total three-network news audience has not changed. Rallying to Walters' defense, the Washington Post's Sally Quinn argued that Walters' coanchor, Harry Reasoner, should...
...absence of able-bodied runners enabled Eichner, tri-captain Jeff Campbell, and John Chafee to compete for the role of "Six-Million Dollar Man". Eichner did his distance double, and Campbell had to run the 1000, mile, and a leg of the two-mile relay. Chafee got all the middle-distance events that were left--the 600-yd. run and the mile relay--and joined Campbell...
Unlike executives of other multimillion-dollar corporations, the president and secretary of the Kansas City Star Co. do not have offices of their own. Instead, they sit at desks in the newsroom, under the direct gaze of the staff. That is only fitting. Since 1926, when the estate of Founder William Rockhill Nelson was liquidated, the newspaper firm has been owned lock, stock and Linotype by its employees...