Word: firming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambition springs anew, however, and John Jay Osborn Jr. '67 is teasing our insecurities again with another novel about the brutal rituals of the law profession. You may make it through Harvard Law, but can you stand the initiation rites of your first year in a prestigious Wall Street firm...
Beer is one industry in which Germans have long prized small size. In contrast to the U.S., where the beer business is increasingly being taken over by a few large firms, led by Anheuser-Busch and Miller, the German industry is made up of many small breweries, some of which serve only a few Wirtshäuser (pubs) in their area. The largest German firm, Dortmunder Union-Schultheiss, accounts for only 10% of the country's production...
...subsidiary of Continental Corp., the big insurance group. During a natural gas shortage three winters ago, INSCO, which sells computer services to Continental and other insurers, decided that it could save fuel through what was literally an open-door policy. So one cold Friday evening, the doors throughout the firm's three story, 102,000-sq.-ft. building were left open so that the heat given off by its data processing equipment-three large IBM 3033 computers, two printers and 160 disc and tape units-could flow to every floor. During that weekend, although the boilers were...
Inspired, INSCO asked a New Jersey architectural and engineering firm named CUH2A to design a way to make full use of the 1.5 million B.T.U.s per hr. of the normally wasted heat from the computers. In place since last year, the CUH2A system employs a maze of pipes, coils and heat exchangers that allow the byproduct B.T.U.s to heat both air space and water in the original building and in a new 72,000-sq.-ft. annex. Though the system cost $90,000, it has been a boon...
...Soviet delegation took a big step backward: the Kremlin would still accept an upper limit of 5%, but now it wanted no limit at all on "downsizing." Gromyko improved slightly on that position, offering to settle for plus 5%, minus 20%. Vance replied that the U.S. would hold firm to a lower limit of 5%. At issue was whether the Soviets would be free to proceed with one or more new, smaller, more fuel-efficient, more accurate ICBMs under the guise that they were merely modified versions of old ICBMs. The U.S. felt that a 20% limit on downsizing would...