Word: low-slung
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Among the first institutions to offer in-house day care were hospitals, which adopted it to help alleviate the nurse shortage. Many other types of firms are following the example. Zale, the jewelry-store chain, last April opened a modernistic, low-slung $300,000 center at its Irving, Texas, headquarters in which a staff of eleven oversees up to 85 children from six weeks to six years of age. At the Matthews, N.C., headquarters of PCA International, an operator of portrait galleries, about 120 children attend a center that costs the company more than $130,000 a year to operate...
...leader of Western Europe's richest and most strategic nation was going out of his way to take a relaxed approach to victory. On the day following the election, Kohl's staff conference began, as usual, at 10 a.m. on the second floor of Bonn's low-slung, glass-and-steel chancellery. The Chancellor kept to his daily appointments. The biggest change in staff routine involved the drafting of replies to the congratulatory telegrams and telex messages that had poured into the building after his impressive victory...
...auto shows this week in Detroit and Los Angeles, and at a special preview in New York, Chrysler Corp. will show off its new, snappy, four-seat, low-slung G24 sports car. To Chrysler, the car is more than just another way to get around. Largely because of the G24, Chrysler, for the first time since 1978, will be recalling U.S. workers who have been on indefinite layoff...
...computers, that number is expected to rise to nearly 20% within the next five years. One who has grasped the true faith is Bob Johnson, who helps run his family's 2,800-acre pig farm near De Kalb, 111. Outside, the winter's first snowflakes have dusted the low-slung roofs of the six red-and-white barns and the brown fields specked with corn stubble. Inside the two-room office building, Johnson slips a disc into his computer and types "D" (for dial) and a telephone number. He is immediately connected to the Illinois farm bureau's newly...
...low-slung, three-wheeled vehicle, which has room for just one person, could get from 1800 to 2000 miles per gallon, according to its builders...