Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misfiring U.S. economic machine lifted the annual rate of G.N.P. over the $1 trillion-a-year mark. Despite the tarnish that inflation placed on that achievement, President Nixon appeared for ceremonies at the Commerce Department's new gross national product clock-a brightly lit and buzzing electronic gadget that ticks off the nation's estimated economic growth at the rate of $2,000 a second. Said Nixon: "We hope to keep it moving, and perhaps move it faster in the years ahead...
...NASA would never see people go hungry so that we could buy another gadget for space," von Braun said, "but a few billion dollars more a year would not embarrass us. We can help solve many of the earth's problems such as weather prediction and the location of natural resources," he added...
...revolution was hell on women. It never helped us?it just made us more available." The West Coast Redstocking Manifesto reports that "our bodies are male-occupied territory." And Laura X (she has abandoned her surname) says: "The pill is the final pollution, the exact analogue of DDT, of gadget-trapping you into functions, not organic wholes. Men have become no more human since its advent: according to many young women who have made that unenviable leap from private property to public property, they treat women worse than ever...
...worth of newly planted shrubs and trees. Now the Parks people rig each new planting with a chain shackled to a stake. The stake is dropped into the hole and turned horizontally. Then the plant roots are arranged around the stake, the hole is filled and the entire gadget concealed with earth. The Parks Department claims it has foiled at least one would-be thief. Workmen in Central Park recently found a plant with all the dirt dug out around its roots, but still firmly anchored to its stake...
...Berkeley police are delighted with their new gadget, which they bought after reading reports that their Hong Kong colleagues had used it successfully in riot control. It is cheap and effective: each shell costs only $7.50. Four were fired at the Fourth of July crowd, dispersing it immediately for a total outlay of $30. "In the past," says Lieut. Ralph Schillinger, "we have fired as much as $6,000 worth of tear gas in one day and still not stopped a riot." The plugs have one other advantage over tear-gas canisters. They are too light to cause any injury...