Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other automakers would be better off. The conversion to small models would bring forth a prolonged spurt in capital investment by the manufacturers and their suppliers for tools, dies, entire new plants. Eventually sales would surge because drivers would feel an increasing need to switch to gas-saving cars. As demand rose, particularly for the most economical vehicles, prices would ride up. Concludes Detroit Auto Analyst Arvid Jouppi: "We are awfully close to the $10,000 small...
...blow descriptions of the court's in camera deliberations during the first seven years (1969-76) of Burger's tenure but also made available a number of confidential court documents. The result is The Brethren, a book that ventures into the Justices' chambers and sets forth their feuds, their jockeying, their horse trading and their personal quirks in relentless and sometimes startling detail...
After ten minutes of breathless back and forth scoring did not change the tenpoint gap between the squads, the Springfiled coach called a time out. Chanthing "boards, boards, boards" like an obsessed pre-law adviser, the Springfiled coach unleashed an inspired Chiefs team that systematically narrowed Harvard's lead, closing to withing four points with 1:18 left to play...
Well before noon on Christmas Day, horror-stricken adults will issue forth from every child-equipped house in the nation. They will be dismayed because they have seen the future. The future works, as it turns out, but only if they make a run for more batteries. Not, as in the good old days, a couple of 10? Evereadys, but bushels of expensive nine-volts, pecks of Penlites, and Cs and Ds in numbers beyond counting...
...small, gray, liquid crystal screen said 542, which is middling-titanic for Blockbuster, the best of several mind-destroying games that can be played on the midget console. Blockbuster is a test of reflexes and anticipation; twiddling the machine's knob moves an electronic paddle back and forth across the bottom of the 1½-in.-square display screen, and the object is to bounce an electronic bullet so that it destroys a wall, block by block. Milton Bradley Co.'s Microvision with Blockbuster, easily the best new electronic game this season, costs about $50. Substituting faceplates, ranging...