Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beatrice, an all-purpose sleeper back who has kept a low profile, roamed the desolate flats gathering St. John tosses and leaving the Lions wide-eyed and bushy-tailed...
Because of the prompt evacuation, the death toll was low: only nine people were known to have died. But many survivors had hair-raising close calls. Ervin Nordmann rushed ahead of the storm to board up his beach house at Gulf Shores, only to be forced to spend the night there when his car would not start. After the howling winds moved on, Nordmann discovered that his house was one of only three still standing out of the 40 that once lined the beach...
Chrysler will remain a full-line auto and truck producer. Among other options it says it rejected was to make only small cars; given its high fixed costs and the low prices it would have to charge, it would lose $43 for every such car produced in 1982. But the company does plan to reduce the number of basic car lines from five to three. Moreover, by 1985 all Chrysler cars will have front-wheel drive, a space-saving feature that only its fast-selling, American-built Omni and Horizon subcompacts have now. The company's basic goal...
...promise by Charles Kuhn, chairman of Wylain Inc., a Dallas manufacturer of submersible pumps, to begin exporting some of his sophisticated gear to replace the ox-drawn pulleys widely used in rural areas. Samuel Miller, vice chairman of Forest City Enterprises Inc., a Cleveland-based homebuilder that makes low-cost housing units, is considering a joint venture with Egyptian Construction Magnate Osman Ahmed Osman to help alleviate Cairo's chronic housing problems. Several American clothing manufacturers are pondering partnerships to provide new equipment for Egypt's tattered textile concerns. Donald Shorr, a vice president of Hart Schaffner & Marx...
Hoffman-La Roche, maker of Valium and Librium, contends that the incidence of addiction is low. The problem, says the company, comes from a small group of patients who either intentionally overdose themselves, stay on the medication too long or combine it with alcohol. Nevertheless, the company plans an educational campaign to alert patients to the risks of misusing Valium...