Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attaches to the recently developed trade with Cuba, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's strongman, now smokes nothing but long Havana cigars. Before his death, Argentina's President Juan Perón granted Cuba $1.2 billion in credits to buy Argentine products, such as road-building equipment, mining machinery, textiles and household appliances. In July, at a trade fair outside Havana the Argentines sold the Cubans an estimated $100 million in goods and agreed to help construct and equip 300 enterprises in Cuba...
...down 48 young women who had had hitherto unexplained viral hepatitis and found that seven had recently had their ears pierced. Not only jewelers but physicians who use only alcohol or benzal-konium solution for "cold sterilization" may be guilty of spreading the disease. Johnson insists that ear-piercing equip ment must be boiled for 20 minutes or thoroughly autoclaved at a higher temperature to rule out the danger of transmitting hepatitis...
Boyle and Kirkman agree that it is easier to give a computer a new program than to equip a human being with a new perception. "The real problem," says Kirkman, "is personal attitudes about women on the part of middle managers, who largely determine whether -and how far-women will rise." In an attempt to get bosses to look hard at their behavior, Boyle and Kirkman have devised a series of play-acting scenarios that they put clients through. In one, a male executive was asked to offer an important but demanding job to Boyle. "He stressed all the negative...
...cars will be fitted with catalytic converters that change noxious exhaust fumes to harmless gases. The lead in ordinary gasoline fouls the converters. Indeed, as little as two tanks of leaded gas will "poison" a converter; to replace it could cost the motorist up to $150. So automakers will equip their 1975 models with smaller-than-usual filler pipes leading into the gas tanks. Conventional gasoline nozzles will not fit into them; only special, smaller nozzles used to dispense unleaded gas will go inside...
...cheerless prospect. In the view of many, Haig has nowhere to go but down, as his own reputation becomes ever more identified with that of the White House. In the end, he may never achieve the role in American life for which his gifts, character and ambition seemed to equip...