Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble laying down McGovern's tax-the-rich line and in the next breath explaining his own wealth. In Boston, Shriver was asked if he might surrender some of his own inheritance in keeping with the McGovern proposal to increase inheritance taxes. "I didn't inherit a nickel. . .I'm just as bad off as you are; maybe I'm worse off," deadpanned Shriver. "Nobody is going to take anything away from me, because I don't have anything...
...relatively little energy for their size and weight. Enough of them to power an electric car would weigh as much as an entire conventional automobile. Furthermore, there is little room for improvement; lead-acid batteries have already been developed close to their theoretical peak. Other batteries using different materials-nickel and cadmium, zinc and silver, or sodium and sulfur-have greater energy density, but they have not yet proved practical either, largely because of high costs...
...Mining and processing Soviet oil, chrome, copper, nickel, palladium and platinum, which U.S. auto manufacturers may need to make antipollution devices (see story on page 65). The Soviets would like U.S. firms to supply advanced mining equipment in return for longterm, fixed-price contracts to buy the processed minerals...
...William Thomas) Grant, 96, founder and honorary chairman of the retail chain that bears his name; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Grant opened the first of his "250 stores" in a Lynn, Mass., Y.M.C.A. in 1906, and immediately specialized in high-turnover products priced between the nickel and dime items of F.W. Woolworth's and the 500 minimum then common in department stores. Nearly 50 years ago, he decided that the business needed professional managers rather than a merchant at the top, and he gradually withdrew from active participation to devote most of his time to philanthropy...
...back his point, Nickel cites an industry in which Japan is by far the world leader: shipbuilding. Japan now has orders for 34.5 million tons of ships, almost five times as much as the country in second place, Sweden; the U.S. has orders for only 2.7 million tons. To examine Japan's success, Nickel visited one of the world's most advanced yards, the Nippon Kokan Shipyard at Tsu in central Japan, which builds vessels of up to 250,000 tons. His report...