Word: neat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite neat formulas and equations in textbooks, chemistry is still an inexact science. At best, scientists only partly understand some of the turbulent processes that occur during chemical reactions; often they cannot accurately predict the end results. Now a California scientist has devised a method for making chemistry more exact: he mixes chemicals in a computer instead of a test tube...
...Neat Bundle. Hurwich remains more than willing to look at new inventions, which have paid off so handsomely for him in the past. He recently gave financial backing to Product Specialists of Santa Monica, Calif., the developers of a 35-to 55-lb. boat made of polypropylene. For easy transportation and storage, the Stowboat, as it is called, can be folded up into a 4-in.-thick, 10-ft.-long bundle. Priced at from $200 to $450 each, the boats have already attracted 1,500 buyers...
First, there is a neat, pink, numbered card that allows visitors to enter. Then there are receptionists to make sure that strangers do not stray into just any of the 250 rooms in Washington's financially troubled Willard Hotel, which has been taken over by United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew. Finally, there is a typical Nixon executive-cool, nononsense, briskly with...
...been working on the Continent for a long time. It is also the latest effort in the British post office's drive to turn the venerable institution into an aggressive, profit-making enterprise. Giro Director John Grady hopes to pay for operating costs and also make a neat profit by investing the pool of money created by Giro's constant flow of deposits. He expects that the new service will attract about 1,500,000 customers and $450 million in deposits within a year...
...said. Kids laughed; an old man, drunk, was singing World War I songs as he passed on the street. Somebody brought out a pint of mocha almond from Brigham's. "The new kids haven't had the three years training on the street," Avery said. He had fairly long, neat blond hair, a twirled mustache, and steel-rimmed glasses. He says he rarely uses drugs himself, "but I've made $1000 in the last four days...