Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start Electra-Bar, a human assistant taps the right combination of keys on a cash-register-like machine. Drawing from one or more of eleven bottles, the machine can mix and pour 36 different drinks. It will also dispense straight shots. Electra-Bar is designed to be both quicker and more precise than a human barman. But the major inducement for spending $9,960 to buy the machine is that it enables a bar owner to keep an accurate eye on his profits. In a traditional saloon, dishonest or sloppy bartenders can cut heavily into the day's take...
...needy students, who now must borrow more, work more or quit college. The University of Pennsylvania is an agonized example. In the past 13 years, scholarships have grown faster than any single item in its budget-from $2 million to $14 million. They have helped Penn to increase its mix of black and poor students. But Penn is running a $1.9 million budget deficit. As a result, it is eliminating 57 of the 867 scholarships it now offers freshmen...
...pessimistic about building any political majority of poor whites and blacks that would appeal to this dissatisfaction. "I don't think that any Southern majority is going to be based on blacks and poor whites," he said. "They don't mix. It will be the man who conveys that sense of frustration with their lack of control over their lives who's going to have a majority...
...with his usual mix of con and conviction, plays up the disparities at every turn. "I'm not just fightin' one man,"; he preaches. "I'm fightin' a lot of men, showin' a lot of 'em here is one man they couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30 million black people. I'll win this fight because I've got a cause. Frazier has no cause. He's in it for the money alone." Caught in the crossfire, Frazier usually backs off. "I don't want to be no more than no more than what...
According to Peterson, the "important issue is finding the best possible educational mix, which may or may not be one-to-one." The significance of this study, he said, "is that good women are not being denied the Harvard-Radcliffe complex because there is no room for them...