Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more alarming, TIME'S board stressed that the developing downturn is no longer confined largely to housing and autos, but has now spilled over into so-called feeder industries like steel, machine tools, building supplies and, through them, into the national economy as a whole. Figures released last week by the Federal Reserve Board showed that industrial production dropped by 2.1% in November, the fourth monthly decline in a row. That was the largest one-month slump since May of 1980, and was a clear signal that worse difficulties are still to come. Meanwhile, the Fed also reported that...
...feeding of finicky felines, an age-old agony for owners, has its own sophisticated new hardware. A gravity feeder-available with cute cat graphics-supplies fresh vittles for a feline left alone for a weekend. There is a timed feeder that mechanically portions out the chow. An enclosed bowl called Step 'n Dine encourages precocious felines to step on a pedal to get at the kibble. For cats who accompany their owners, there are carrying cases that cost as much as $420 for Louis Vuitton versions, and for $33.98, a caring cat owner may invest in a tiny, burglar...
...need to build up the network of relations in women and minority circles," Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, said yesterday, adding "We have got very good relations with about 50 'feeder schools,' but we never had anyone to build up relations" with other colleges...
...some chewing-gum factory . " Well, two weeks ago, Warner-Lambert announced that it would close down its gum-manufacturing American Chicle factory in Long Island City, N.Y.; the workers who had spent years there making Dentyne and Chiclets were distraught. "It's a beautiful place to work," one feeder-catcher-packer of chewing gum said sadly. "It's just like home." There is a peculiar elitist arrogance in those who discourse on the brutalizations of work simply because they cannot imagine themselves performing the job. Certainly workers often feel abstracted out, reduced sometimes to dreary robotic functions...