Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trawler-factory to fish for shark, calls it "the product of the future." Its fate will depend largely on the success of the strategy that U.S. restaurateurs are using to overcome the stigma of shark: capitalizing on it. At Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting 16-in. stuffed sharks on diners' tables, along with a card announcing JAWS: FOR A JAWFUL REVENGE. A fashionable Indian restaurant in Manhattan, Nirvana on Rooftop, draws attention to its shark curry by keeping three small sharks...
...becoming the first modern woman dictator last year, Indira Gandhi proved anew that women can be as domineering as men. An ardent feminist, she has fought the Indian practice of bridegrooms demanding dowries. (One telling vignette: in response to a suitor's request for a motor scooter as a dowry, one village girl jilted the man; he had to settle for a sheep from a less affluent bride...
...more than a year, the Ford Administration has waged a crusader's war against "regulatory fiefdoms" in the Federal Government that, it claims, aggravate inflation by keeping prices artificially high and limiting competition. Last week, in line with this campaign, the Administration submitted to Congress a Motor Carrier Reform Act, which would largely remove interstate truck and bus transportation from federal regulation. This marked the third phase of a land-air offensive: earlier the Administration had proposed a Railroad Revitalization Act, which would lift the heavy hand of the Interstate Commerce Commission from railroads, and an Aviation...
Traveling across country in a car donated by the Ford Motor Company, the Stanford athletes have visited U.S.C., Washington, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Northeastern. Similar big brother programs are being established at these schools. After Harvard they will finish their nationwide campaign by visiting Yale, Duke and Alabama...
...Hotels. Some interesting deals are in the making. The Ford Motor Co. has been considering construction of a $60 million diesel-engine plant in Egypt, and eleven foreign companies, seven of them American, have been talking about some kind of partnership with Nasr, Egypt's No. 1 automaker. No fewer than 26 foreign oil companies are exploring the country; Cairo officials hope that Egypt will be producing a million barrels...