Word: exhaust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows how many auto accidents are caused by motorists whose reaction time is somewhat slowed by a small seepage of carbon monoxide into a closed auto. If the exhaust and manifold are in good shape and fitted tight, the auto is probably safe. But it's even safer to leave a rear window open a crack...
...only to have a severe relapse after six months back on the job. What helped the doctors clear up his case was the fact that the cop sometimes took a holiday down on the farm, working a tractor that required him to walk behind it. Helped by tractor-engine exhaust, his vacation "cure" gave him the same nervous-system symptoms as he had had in the city: abnormal brain waves, mental dullness, inability to concentrate, and tremor...
...have cost Harvard the Ivy Championship by forcing the Crimson to exhaust its precious supply of timeouts on illegitimate substitutions during the second half of the Columbia game. Harvard fans recall with some displeasure the frantic efforts of quarterback Mike Bassett to get the ball in play at the end of that game with only a short distance to the endzone remaining...
...even this list does not exhaust Hachette's properties, nor its claims to dominance. Brodard et Taupin, France's largest printing house, is a Hachette subsidiary. Hachette has links with two advertising agencies, Havas and Publicis. It owns a mill that makes coated paper, has a majority interest in a company that binds books and manufactures stationery, and in another that produces textbooks and school supplies. It controls one company producing TV programs and owns another. It owns a bank. It operates all 1,217 news kiosks in Paris' Métro, railroad stations and airports...
...sophisticated. In Detroit's Cobo Hall, a Honeywell control panel not only regulates air conditioning but also operates the public address system, lights and fire alarms and monitors the 1,800-car garage; whenever the carbon monoxide gets too strong, Honeywell's Data Center automatically turns on exhaust fans. Altogether Honeywell has installed some 1,000 such units, including two in Manhattan's massive Chase Manhattan Bank building. Last week the company signed a $100,000 contract for a distant and unusual control project: a centrally controlled heating and air-conditioning system for the humid mansion...