Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goals-defense and space, for example-but otherwise have built an economy that is preposterously inefficient and corrupt. Industrial plant directors bent upon fulfilling the Plan adulterate their products to increase quantity. Pills come out at half-strength. A canning engineer admits: "If we add less sugar to the jam, we can produce more canned goods and meet the Plan." Window panes are often made so thin that most are shattered before they can be installed in apartment complexes that begin losing bricks just after the tenants move in. (Jutting screens are sometimes installed above the first floor to catch...
...positive side, Leon Goetz had three hits (the team had 12), and Larry Brown, the third Crimson hurler, did work loose from a sixth-inning jam. If he hadn't, the Crusaders might have won by three touchdowns. So much for being patriotic...
After a double play took Clifford out of a potential jam in the top of the inning, the Crimson regained control with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth...
...referring to Washington's curious reticence about the great Moscow microwave furor. Last month the U.S. confirmed that for some 15 years the Soviet Union has been beaming microwaves at the hulking nine-story U.S. embassy on Moscow's Tchaikovsky Street (TIME, Feb. 23). The purpose: to jam the sophisticated electronic monitoring devices inside and on the roof of the building. (An earlier theory, now taken less seriously, was that the microwaves were designed to activate or charge up Soviet bugs planted within the embassy.) The U.S. has also confirmed that last May the microwave dosage suddenly increased...
...moment for Walter Matsinger arrived 2½ years ago, as he was stalled in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam on his way home from work as a carpenter's apprentice in Philadelphia. "This is it," Matsinger said to himself. He knew that he had to leave the city, to flee its crime, its pollution and impersonality, its high social anger. Suddenly, he recalls, "the whole area where I grew up seemed old and drab." Bachelor Matsinger went home, packed and headed for the Southwest. Today he is happily settled in Tucson, Ariz., where he works as a mason...