Word: fasteners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Fasten Your Seat Belts" is a report on our snarled airports and hazard-ridden skies as air traffic outdistances the construction of new ground facilities. Repeat...
...workers carelessly installed the wrong alternators, which did not generate enough current to keep the batteries fully charged under heavy loads. To overcome lax workmanship on the production line, G.M.'s Buick Division not long ago outfitted torque wrenches with horns that sound off whenever workers fail to fasten nuts and bolts tightly enough. Quality control is becoming an increasingly big headache on Mondays and Fridays, when high absenteeism forces management to rely heavily on backup...
Unfortunate Delay. Whatever the Soviet motives, the West Germans' inept handling of the election plans probably tempted the Russians to fasten on to that particular issue. Despite vague Communist warnings, the West Germans decided last December to go ahead with presidential selection in Berlin. But then the West Germans unfortunately failed to send out the formal summonses that would have made the decision final. The delay apparently led the Communists to believe that the West Germans could still be badgered out of holding the elections in Berlin...
...JOURNAL (NET, 8-9 p.m.). "Fasten Your Seat Belts" focuses on the hazardous skies and snarled airports where air traffic grows far faster than the facilities available at present to handle...
...essentially like European capitalism in the middle of the 19th century." And sometimes such views come to dominate a particular scene to the extent that they actually express, for the moment, the viewpoint of a significant group of radicals. And this may be a necessary stage. But to fasten on any such stage of growth, particularly when events are moving so fast that we have seen anywhere between three and eight "generations" of radicals since 1959 alone is to miss all possibility of comprehension. Eventually, you may want to draw the line against "disruptive" radicalism, but if you cherish...