Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although some kinks remain to be worked out, supermarket operators are impressed with the system. At the check-out counter, it eliminates the chance for human error at the keys of a cash register. The computers also offer store managers a system of instant inventory control and a quick means of checking the results of sales and promotion campaigns. Finally, the system relieves stores of the chore of stamping prices on each individual item, which means that they can get by with fewer $4-an-hour grocery boys. Although the cost of installing the system can run as high...
...with an attitude of amused tolerance. Former President Georges Pompidou managed to survive gossip that his high-spirited wife took more than a cultural interest in the fun-loving young artists of the Saint-Tropez jet set. Third Republic President Félix Fauré achieved a kind of instant canonization in 1899, when it was learned that he died performing his amorous arts in a ground-floor room at the Elysée. The liaison amoureuse, in fact, is as venerable and popular an institution in Paris as the Comédie Française-the government-subsidized theater...
Even in a decade notable for instant nostalgia, 1974 is a remarkable year. The large books, primarily concocted for Christmas buyers, are marked by more longing to look backward than ever before. The trend may in part be due to the Bicentennial celebration that is shortly to engulf Americans; the first wave of titles about the American Revolution is already at hand. It may be too with the future looking the way it does, Americans (publishers as well as readers) simply want to celebrate, enjoy or just get acquainted with the American past. Whatever the cause, the result this year...
...placed 4th in the race, won his 3rd Grand Prix Driving Championship, the cumulative point total of all the races run this year, and makes over $1,000,000 a year. I will read about the crashes and laptimes, mechanical failures and prize money. But the people of that instant city of 105,000 have now disappeared, their lives unrecorded, back into the bowels of America. And the drivers will continue defining their precise arcs on the edge of death, ripping across the edge once too often, once...
...north end of the neighborhood was successfully downzoned, and Harvard's attempts to develop the Sachs Estate (dubbed Norton Woods by the instant ecologists in the neighborhood) in high density, high rise, faculty housing were successfully resisted, both in 1973. In 1974 the Planning Group met several times with Harvard to discuss issues, formulated a community response to Harvard's "Long Range Plan - An Interim Report," supported attempts to down-zone Massachusetts Avenue within the neighborhood and most recently has launched a successful effort to down-zone the two block area described above...