Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each vertebra with her toes. There is the Siesta Room, where you lie under artificial stars winking in a midnight-blue ceiling. But there is also the Orthion, a space-age torture rack that rolls, vibrates, heats up and stretches you in two directions at once. The end result: minus 5 Ibs. "Nice going, champ!" says Director Hutton as he pastes two gold stars on your report card. "You just can't beat La Costa. It's a special world...
Deceptive Index. Economic growth -the increase in total output of goods and services-is in many ways a misleading index. "Real" G.N.P., that is dollar growth minus price inflation, is a more meaningful indicator of prosperity. But no index takes into account many intangible gains: the benefits of wiping out a disease, for example, or the fact that U.S. workers have achieved an extra 22 hours a week of leisure time since the start of the century...
Since shooting began two months ago, the temperature has rarely risen above minus-five degrees, and more often it hovers a good ten or 15 degrees below that. The camera is equipped with arctic oil and a special heating element beneath the motor, neither of which keeps the film from going brittle and breaking periodically. The sound man has been forced to wrap his microphone in a woman's stocking to soften the noise of the wind that howls across the snow. In one scene that required going without gloves, Tom Courtenay, who stars as Ivan (and uses...
...like to see what it's about happen, minus the drug thing," she said. "Freedom, love, liberation and all that stuff, I guess everybody wants that, but it doesn't happen. Hair is fantasy; it's what we'd like. Some people like Hello Dolly. That's their fantasy, Hair is fantasy...
...Thursday-15 minutes after the flight had originally been scheduled to land in London-the passengers, minus 20 dropouts. finally took off. The flight lasted 61 hours, about 20 minutes less than the same trip in a Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8. In the air, passengers found the 747 to be comfortable, quiet and smooth riding. At London's Heathrow Airport, baggage handlers who had managed to unload a 747 in 18 minutes in an early test took almost 45 minutes to do the job for real...