Word: junked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creates employment as well as demand for electricity. "The primary thing we need is jobs," he said. "That's how people get what they need to live." Howard P. Allen, vice president of the Southern California Edison Co., added that electric energy runs sewage pumps, mass transit and junk compressors: "The inescapable conclusion from these facts is that more, not less electricity will be needed if we are to save our environment...
...level of Alaska's 22,320-ft. Mt. McKinley, five University of Oregon students and two teen-agers called it quits. But as the climbers saw it, the trip was hardly a waste of time. At the 17,200 ft. level they found heaps of junk discarded by previous climbers-ski bindings, socks, even underwear-plus tons of paper blown round the mountain by 100 m.p.h. winds that rake its frigid slopes...
...than American? Simple. Quality, price, customer relations. Too often the American dealer is great until he has your money and then to hell with you. I have bought foreign products not out of disloyalty to my country or big business, but because I am sick and tired of getting junk for my money and nothing for my patronage...
...exchange for our precious natural resources, which we obtain by stripping our national forests and ravishing our Appalachian Mountains for coal, we are sent a bunch of consumer junk, and we still end up with a billion-dollar-per-year deficit in the balance of payments...
...been seven years since Mary McCarthy published The Group, her witty, intricate chorale of the '30s, which was praised at the cash registers and patronized by the critics as a popular piece of junk. Such a misunderstanding is unlikely to befall her ambitious new book. Birds of America is so deeply plunged in thought that, despite attractive characters and immaculately constructed scenes, it often seems less like a novel than one of the author's admirable essays. The principal thinker, whose mind frames and filters the events, is a 19-year-old American boy named Peter Levi. What...