Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delvecchio, general manager of HSA, refused to comment yesterday...
...individual experts on how much oil they thought was economically recoverable at a cost of $20 per bbl., which is about $6 above the going price. The consensus, he reported, was that "the reservoir of oil is large and full"-about 2,000 billion bbl. But there was also general concern about the declining rate of major new discoveries. Says Desprairies: "The big fields have been discovered...
...Americans represented large multinationals, such as Teledyne and General Motors, as well as small firms like RH Packaging of Clearwater, Fla. RH's president, Ron Hume, claims he has invented a machine that packages liquids like yogurt and orange juice at one-third the operating cost of comparable Japanese equipment. So far Hume has found no takers. DuPont's Lind joined the tour only because DuPont last year managed to push through import approval for its new blood analyzers in the remarkably short period of four months (vs. the usual nine to 18 months waiting time); DuPont...
...nation's 33,000 supermarkets, only 373 have the new equipment. Meanwhile, the slow pace of the UPC revolution has led to quick check-outs by several firms that had hoped to capture a share of the supermarket automation field. After investing heavily in research and marketing studies, General Electric, RCA, Singer, Bunker Ramo and Pitney-Bowes all chose to cut their losses and quit. Now even Sperry Rand, which had bought out RCA's licenses, has withdrawn...
...title seriously, and in his self-styled "historical romance," the images of atrocity are all the more striking. His concern for history, moreover, does not end there: he clearly intends his work to be an education as well as drama. Historical characters, from Roosevelt to Admiral "Bull" Halsey to General Eisenhower's good friend Kay Summersby, are drawn with lively precision. To outline the war's broad strategies, he again employs an unusual device, an invented history called World Holocaust, written from the enemy's viewpoint by a German general and translated, after...