Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line to hear the good news. Ford did, but in one of those small diversions that can deflect the noblest moments, she turned out to be talking on the Fords' other phone to one of their sons at school, using the only house line with an extension outlet. So Haig hung up, Ford got Betty to hang up, and Haig called back on Betty's line and repeated the glad tidings. There was never any discussion about whether Ford would accept-all hands properly took that as given...
...cars, trucks and vans, sometimes stowing away in cardboard boxes or disappearing behind loads of watermelons and sacks of potatoes. One smuggler tucked his stowaways in his trunk, and supplied them with the needed air circulation by connecting fans in the trunk to the car's cigarette-lighter outlet...
Claude comes under the influence of a couple of married swingers (Nathalie Delon, Jean-Pierre Marielle) who try to enlist him in the joys of communal sex. He is tempted but resists, and instead uses his wife as an outlet for his mounting energies and disintegrating inhibitions, as well as his expanding knowledge of geometrically complex sexual postures. After his wife persuades him to hire a clerk to staff the shop (Beatrice Romand), Claude tries to seduce the clerk, but she turns out to be more interested in Claude's wife. Finally every body goes off on a sort...
...Pearl's Chicken Systems, Joe Namath's Broadway Joe's and a number of other chains all fell on hard times as competitors proliferated. McDonald's will have to scramble harder and harder to stay ahead of the pack. At present, a McDonald's outlet requires a population base of 30,000 to support it in the style to which Ray Kroc is accustomed. The company has already exploited many of the best locations...
Show Tune. Kroc nevertheless foresees ever greater expansion. One bright hope is, paradoxically, a return to the city. Swallowing such old fears as crime and high real estate costs, McDonald's has begun opening dozens of downtown outlets-and all pull in high revenues. Another possibility is what Kroc calls "internal growth," that is, wringing more sales out of each outlet...