Word: fi
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...Cambridge's largest employer, adding to the conflict of interest in local politics. The bulk of new jobs in the city are the MIT-generated white-collar employers of commuting suburbanites (NASA-Tech Square, Badget, A.D. Little). Partial exceptions with some assembly operations, like Polaroid and the hi-fi industries, began similarly as research units and only later generated jobs, and, like Polaroid, have a tendency to locate expansion facilities outside Cambridge. The City Council panders to these and other intensive profit, low job-generating (like new high-rise hotel and commercial) activities in its zoning and tax structures...
Thus music lovers heard with relief that Avery Fisher, 67, a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi components, has given an estimated $10 million to maintain what now becomes Avery Fisher Hall, and the fourth Lincoln Center building named for benefactors. Philanthropist Vivian Beaumont Allen gave $5,000,000, Arts Patron Alice Tully, an estimated $5,000,000, and Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse...
...before rounding the next cosmic bend without so much as thank you. The probability that a vastly superior intelligence would be totally indifferent to man and his doings is indeed what Clarke is writing about. But the theme is a bit too thinly spread between those two familiar sci-fi constants, the speed of light and the indomitable molasses of human nature...
...with the admission of tapes, no one will ever master the entire vocabulary or thought processes of the Nixon Administration. But tantalizing glimpses are possible through the aperture of the Ervin hearings. By now, of course, the Nixonian cadre has turned a few phrases to bromides, notably the sci-fi sounds: "At that point in time," and, "In that time frame." Still, these clichés are excellent indicators of the Administration's unwritten laws of language: 1) never use a word when a sentence will do; 2) obscure, don't clarify; 3) Humpty Dumpty was right when...
Berkey owns the Willoughby-Peerless chain of camera and hi-fi retail stores in New York and Pennsylvania, distributes the Minox and Konica lines of imported camera products, and since 1966 has owned Keystone. A cautious businessman despite his somewhat raffish appearance, Berkey still rues a day in the 1940s when he had a chance to invest in a new product called Polaroid cameras, "but I told them I wouldn't give them a nickel." Last year, Berkey finally managed to recoup a bit on that mistake: Keystone brought out the only instant camera that has ever been developed...