Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting over my troubles. The gist of that article was that a shock may occur, at any stage in a man's life, which might make him feel that all avenues in front of him are blocked, that life itself is a prison cell with a perpetually locked door...
While leaving the door ajar for further negotiations, top officials of the Carter Administration last week politely but firmly turned down a set of proposals from Tokyo for reducing Japan's huge international trade surplus. By keeping out foreign goods and saturating world markets with their products, Japan has piled up a surplus that this year is heading toward a record $15 billion, and this is hindering growth and increasing unemployment in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...reflecting the rise of their nations' currencies against the dollar and promising less stiff import competition to Detroit. More important, the domestic industry has come up with some hot new or redesigned models. GM has heavily scored with a new four-door Chevette. Ford's Fairmont and Zephyr, which have replaced the Maverick and the Comet in the compact class, are moving out of showrooms in startling numbers. Indeed, the Fairmont is selling faster than the Mustang did when it was introduced in 1965. Says Ford President Lee lacocca: "We expect to top the first-year Mustang record...
...back of a paper bag," says Jack McMahon, head of the development group for Parker Bros., the big Massachusetts game manufacturer responsible for Monopoly, that company's alltime bestseller. A couple of years ago an extraordinary little group managed to get a shoe in Parker Bros.' door: a Cambridge astronomer named Robert Doyle, his wife Holly, an astrophysicist who taught at Harvard, and her brother Wendl Thomis, a New York computer software expert. They had given themselves a name, Microcosmos, like a rock group, and what was more interesting, they had an idea: the use of computers...
After his fight with Moore, for instance, the author heard that the Duchess d'Uzes was delivered to the door of Stillman's Gym in a Rolls-Royce. "She paused at the turnstile, a lovely, graceful girl who always wore long light-blue chiffon to set off her golden hair. She peered into the gloom. 'Where's everybody?' she called . . . Lou Stillman approached. I don't know if he produced one of his in finitesimal spittles. Let us say he cleared his throat. 'Everybody is not here,' he said." Such stories have...