Word: outletting
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Frustration needs an outlet, and one new form of instant escapism surfaced at Atlanta's Emory University. There the current movement is to organize an "aggression day" on which students can pelt one another with mudpies and bags of water regardless of ideology and for no reason whatever. Not the least significant expression of the nation's mixed-up mood was a bumper sticker with the slogan: SEND BATMAN TO VIET NAM. There was also a new button that proclaimed...
...strike? New York's Mayor Lindsay assured a reporter that he had considerable doubt; Trib employees in New York and Washington echoed his concern by looking for other jobs. The word was that Columnists Walter Lippmann and Art Buchwald, anxious to hang on to a New York outlet, would sign on with the Times...
Nietzache would have called it an outlet for "internalized aggression;" the Harvard "Regulations for Students" call it a reason for expulsion. But for over-worked, exam-beset Harvard students from time immemorial, it's been the Riot...
...prices are jumping fastest on the fringes of cities, partly because speculators figure that population growth, low tax assessments on vacant land, and the growing net of federal highways will give them juicy profits. Also, inflation worries and stock-market jitters persuade some investors that land is a safer outlet. Heavy buying has lifted the price of farms near Minneapolis by 20% in the past year; land five miles from the center of Youngstown, Ohio, has quadrupled from $500 to $2,000 an acre in eight years. The city of Wichita recently paid $600 for cornfields along the Arkansas River...
Sony's Videocorder is composed of three units: a recorder, a 9-in. monitor and a TV camera. Putting both picture and sound on tape, the Videocorder can record regular TV broadcasts off the monitor or take what's happening anywhere within reach of an electric outlet. The image appears on the TV screen with no delay for processing, or it can be stored on tape and played back in the future. The magnetic tape is good for as long as one hour, can be erased and re-used up to 500 times. A battery pack for outdoor...