Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three or Less. As the season went on, the A.F.L. developed a remarkable balance among its eight teams, thereby avoided the fatal flaw that killed the All-America Football Conference (1946-49), which was dominated to the point of boredom by the Cleveland Browns.-Even so, the A.F.L. averaged crowds of only 16,680, including a goodly number of free admissions (average N.F.L. crowd: 40,000). One bright spot in A.F.L. finances was the league's package TV deal with ABC, which doled out about $200,000 to each team-more, on average, than N.F.L. teams were able...
...Opus 110; Mr. Fischer's touch was alternately feather-light and hammer-heavy, in the right places. Things went down-hill from there on in, however. The slow movement lacked nuances of expression, and the final fugue was marred by a memory lapse, which, though not a fatal flaw in itself, may have caused the pianist's failure to inject the called-for nuovovivente. Still, the tight-knit cluster of highly emotional notes which closes the Sonata was very impressive...
...hollering, since they lose the housewife's confidence-and future sales-and are forced to provide excessive service repairs. For example, New York's Korvette chain last year found that a nationally advertised TV set had a bad part. Korvette refused to sell it until the flaw was corrected...
...since remedied. Maytag decided to drop annual model changes, use the savings for better quality control, and sales soared To test its 1961 refrigerators, Westinghouse shipped them to nine representative dealers for home testing. The dealers found that the refrigerator doors began to bend and leak air, a design flaw that factory inspection had failed to turn up. Los Angeles Waste King Corp. employs Mrs. Sylvia White, a sociologist, to represent the consumer on the spot. She has shut down a production line because she concluded that a new change was not an improvement, explaining with housewifely common sense: "Engineers...
...amiable wife and son. But he was too realistic, too humble, too genuine a man to forget them. 'Uncle Arthur loves odd fish,' said Roy Calvert, whom he had helped through more than one folly. In middle age 'Uncle Arthur' was four square in himself, without a crack or flaw, rooted in his solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature. But he loved odd fish, for he knew, better than anyone, the odd desires, that he had left behind...