Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond that, the Government has stepped up its annual research budget for electrics from $200,000 in the early 1970s to $35 million proposed for fiscal 1979, mostly to search for low-cost, lightweight, long-range batteries. All DOE will predict is that "there will be a significant number" of electrics around by the year 2000. Fill 'er up, sir? Naw, plug it again...
...Muhammad All, in his hardest fighting trim, had been flattened by some tank-town lightweight. Berkey Photo, a financially rickety New York-based photo-products manufacturer and retailer of cameras, film and chemicals, with sales of about $200 million a year, won a favorable jury verdict in a marathon antitrust action against Eastman Kodak (1976 sales: $5.4 billion). During the trial, which lasted six months, Berkey claimed that it had been grievously damaged by Kodak's alleged monopoly power; Berkey lost $24.2 million in the first nine months of 1977. To the astonishment of many legal experts, the jury...
...Says Executive Vice President R.K. Brown: "In five years, when the entire industry will have spent $50 billion to rebuild an entire new fleet of cars for the North American public, people will look back and say it all started with Omni and Horizon." These are two snappy, speedy, lightweight cars that Chrysler is now showing off to the press, and will put on sale in mid-January...
Already in place is another new and mighty technological widget: the Tuned Mass Damper (TMD), an 800,000-lb. concrete block capable of moving three feet in four directions, which greatly reduces the lightweight building's sway in a gale. Determined to make the building as energy efficient as any in existence, Citicorp consulted Robert Bell, director of research and development for Consolidated Edison, who also happened to be president of Saint Peter's and chairman of the church building committee. Says Bell today: "Citicorp, in terms of energy conservation, is one of the most...
...Lightweight Ray Dominguez continued to run up against unusually stiff competition in the 118-lb. matches. Dominguez courageously battled Engineer Dave Wilson, refusing to be pinned although Wilson held a commanding 13-0 lead...