Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund drive efforts, however, will be "low-key." "Last year, they had 60 members who spent all four days going after money. There will be nothing like that this year," Abrams said. "This reunion is an occasion for all of us to relax and enjoy ourselves with a minimum of pressure...
...Leary unfortunately compounded the confusion. In April, President Carter asserted that stocks of crude oil were dangerously low and had to be rebuilt. Result: oil companies obediently stored crude that they normally would have refined into gasoline. Last week O'Leary said the oil companies had been too "conservative" and urged them to reduce stocks of both crude oil and gasoline in order to make more gas available...
...cycles. Put simply, this means that the speed of a conventional motor can be automatically varied according to the work it has to do at any moment. When the load is high, the speed-and the amount of electricity consumed-is normal. But when the load is low, the speed-and the amount of energy burned-can be reduced...
Federal and state governments promote unnecessary hospitalization too. In the Miami area, a February survey found four times as many chronically ill Medicaid patients being treated in hospitals as in nursing homes. Dr. Gerard Mayer, who directed the survey, explains: "Medicaid in Florida makes such low payments to nursing homes that the homes limit the number of beds available to indigent patients. The catch-22 is that the patients wind up waiting in hospitals which are even more expensive" because Medicaid does pay nearly 100% of basic hospital costs, whatever they...
...Mighty Mouse record he sings along to is his own, from childhood; the cartoons he shows-including a couple of kindergarten antiprejudice tracts-were long-ago gifts from his grandfather. "The audience," says his collaborator Bob Zmuda, 29, "is asked to become babies again." This is a sort of low-level exercise in primal manipulation that might turn precious, like a Steve Martin extravaganza of silliness. But Kaufman, whether he chooses to acknowledge it or not, is up to something a good deal more ambitious. He is continually questioning, then undermining the idea of what is funny. "Andy takes...