Word: interlock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intended as an alternative to jail terms and suspended licenses for drunk drivers, the locks have mouthpieces into which drivers must exhale to measure their breath-alcohol level. The manufacturers, Guardian Interlock Systems of Denver and Safety Interlock of Carmel, Calif., claim that built-in safeguards make it difficult for drivers to use compressed air or borrow a breath of fresh air from a friend. One unsolved problem: how to prevent a tipsy driver from borrowing a car that has not been drunkproofed...
There are several reasons, which interlock. One was the postwar baby boom, whose mass, having moved through the art schools like an antelope through a python, arrived in the art world at the end of the '70s. American art teaching swelled in the '60s and '70s. Every university had to have its art department, and that department had to be full. The National Association of Schools of Art and Design guesses that about 900 institutions offer fine-arts degree programs; its own 138 member schools had 45,000 students in the fall of 1982, of whom some 8,500 graduated...
...also said she has worked with Interlock Media in producing a radio documentary on Guatemala, which National Public Radio distributed. "[The program] is focused on the Indians and the problems they are facing, the indigenous people and the effect of policy on their communities," she added...
...frenzied pantomime with a wine bottle, a cactus plant, bouquets of flowers, a fireman's ax, shoelaces tied together and assorted other slapstick paraphernalia. It is a pas de neufso ingeniously choreographed that the antics in the back-to-back farces coincide precisely, while lines of dialogue interlock in midair...
...trends interlock-the most expensive campaigns not infrequently are also the most scurrilous-and there is little in sight to stop either trend. Laments William Brodhead, a Michigan Democrat who decided to retire from the House rather than try to finance a re-election race: "It's sort of like the arms race. Every time one side ups the bid, the other side counterbids. It's out of control...