Word: gillettee
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The early signs are not encouraging. Towns across the Rockies are suffering from what Psychologist Eldean V. Kohrs has called the "Gillette syndrome," named after a once bucolic ranching town in northeastern Wyoming. As oil and coal developers moved in to exploit what lay underneath Gillette, the town ballooned from...
Symptoms of Gillette syndrome can now be found in nearly every Rocky Mountain state. Until a new grammar school was built in Colstrip, Mont. (pop. 3,000), students had to convene for classes in the town's shopping center. In Grants, N. Mex., the self-proclaimed "Uranium Capital of...
HOW MANY ANGELS can dance on the edge of a Gillette Platinum-Plus? Not too many. and the ones who can need help, so they use other people like guywires--it's all a matter of trust. But then trust is gone like the Lone Ranger, and the angels were...
Some variation of this philosophy rests behind most of Roth's and Elkin's best work: The worst is yet to be, so watch out. The disasters that befall Roth heroes are chiefly sexual; well-educated, pampered men, they try to be moral and high-minded while writhing...
But alcohol is still in experimental stages, Yergin said, adding that although renewable sources are feasible in the long run, conservation should be the main new source of energy now. Citing the Boston-based Gillette Company's 30-per-cent reduction of energy, Yergin said that the United States could...