Word: marvinism
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...chairman of New York State's Public Service Commission. Under his direction, the PSC allowed telephone users to hook up their own equipment to the Bell system and permitted utility companies to set different electric rates depending on the time of day. As Kahn advised his CAB successor, Marvin Cohen: "Understand how a free market works and restrain one's tendency to meddle...
...talking about having computers monitor the internal workings of cattle, so that farmers could calculate better how to fatten them. The computers could read radio-telemetry signals on body temperature, heartbeat and respiration rates from transmitters swallowed by the cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount of milk...
...Marvin Molar, who walks on his hands and can balance on a finger; Herman Mack, who eats an entire car; Joe Lon Mackey, a homicidal sadist. This gallery of grotesques could only have been invented by Harry Crews, a Southern gothic novelist who often makes William Faulkner look pastoral by comparison...
They disallowed hand-checking on defense, experimented with a three-point field goal, added another referee, and tightened up rules on zone defenses. And Jesus, though they tried, the Nets were still bankrupt and Marvin Barnes only played when he felt like...
...season away either Portland (with or without a truckin' Bill Walton), Phoenix (with a healthy Alvan Adams), or Golden State (with the league's best backcourt in Phil Smith and Barry-compensation John Lucas) will win the street fight for king of the West. Seattle is going nowhere without Marvin Webster. San Diego already went somewhere, but the Clippers are still Buffalo to those of us who know and pity them...