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Word: melts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with $9,800 at Ford and $9,300 at Chrysler. A prime reason, ironically, is GM's multibillion-dollar rush to reduce labor costs by installing robotic factories, many of which still have bugs. Example: at Detroit's Poletown luxury-car plant, the taillights on some models tended to melt in the automated paint-hardening ovens. The technology * should gradually become a financial advantage as it begins to operate more smoothly. Says Chairman Smith: "You know we are not making clothespins. We are making a car with 15,000 parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Motors a Giant Stalls, Then Revs Its Engines | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...know it was due last leap year. I am also well aware that if you don't do it right now your face will melt off or something. Right on your shoes, most likely. And we all know how hard it is to get melted face off shoes...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Who Cares? | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...doing, work that they should be doing because if they don't do it now they surely will fail everything and not get into graduate school and have a horrible poverty-striken life with a pain-in-the-butt spouse and lots of ugly slimy kids whose faces will melt...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Who Cares? | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...local Burger King once they began to sell something chickeny for my late-night gastronomical pleasure. Little did I know, though, that Burger King was cooking their chicken sandwich in deadly beef fat, as opposed to more healthful vegetable oil, and was throwing enough salt onto the thing to melt a polar icecap...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Where to Find the Beef | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

Marge came in from the kitchen and addressed the crowd. She wore jet beads and a black blouse with a naughty scoop neck and black pajama pants, and she looked young and terrific. On the upright was a bouquet from her students. "I hope you all don't melt," she said. "Do you feel like sardines? I'm giving you all the air I can." It was a hot night for the high plains, and all the doors and windows were open. "I'm so proud of them," Marge went on. "I just hope nerves don't take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: the Recital At Marge's House | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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