Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles on a tortuous and twisting trail in the darkness-and an almost certain Viet Cong ambush. Dak Son's only outside help during its long night of terror and death was a single C-47 Dragonship that hovered over the hamlet, spraying the surrounding fields with its mini-guns. The grim gunners had no need of flares to spot their targets...
...Micro-mini is scientifically acceptable according to the International Committee on Weights and Measures but micro-micro since 1963 has been replaced by pica (pronounced peek-o). GEORGE COATS Physicist U.S. Public Health Service Winchester, Mass...
...With the devaluation of sterling. I think it would be a suitable description to say: "It's Mini-Britain making minicars, wearing miniskirts and now having mini-pounds sterling." Y. M. ADAM Mahe, Seychelles...
...sympathetic irony, draws on J. W. Mackail's exhaustive work of 1899 and adds psychological material once thought improper. Morris shines through the pages as a prodigious Victorian, one of a long line of self-confident zealots whose faith and energies gave them a stature that the modern mini-man can only wonder at. A dozen specialist scholars -in politics, poetry, architecture, painting, interior design, cabinetry, fabrics-would be needed to catalogue his achievements. The aim of his life was to restore craftsmanship and beauty to a deprived industrial working class. He was concerned with the deep discrepancy between...
Apart from causing interest costs to rise, the mini-pound should benefit U.S. consumers. However, the price of British goods shipped abroad will fall not by the full 14.3% devaluation but from zero to about 10%, depending chiefly on how much of the final tab represents transportation, import duties, U.S. distribution and profit markups. Auto dealers expect to cut prices of British cars by 5% to 10% within weeks. On the other hand, importers predicted that the cost of a bottle of Scotch will drop only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some...