Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loudest complaints are coming from farmers. Fuki Moki, 48, whose ancestral patch of land lies near Mount Takago Natural Monkey Park south of Tokyo, says that the macaques wreak havoc in his onions and beans. "They also tear up my mushrooms and throw them around just for the hell of it -without even trying to eat them." Moki's next-door neighbor, Haruji Kenmoto, 65, estimates that engai damage cost him $6,000 last year. "Sometimes they even come indoors and bare their teeth at the children," he says. "It scares the daylights out of them." One macaque climbed...
...communications for the Republican National Committee. Under the sponsorship of Kaiser Broadcasting, the pair have now held six bipartisan sessions in major cities, giving advice that ranges from the fundamental ("Money is the mothers' milk of politics") to the peripheral ("Get long socks. Nobody likes to see a patch of bare leg over a droopy sock"). Unusual as it seems, the idea is working. Said one Detroit pol: "I've learned more here than I've learned in twelve years in politics...
...better relations with the Chinese and Soviets than they have with each other. Despite some Russian claims to the contrary, there was no hard evidence that Nixon's mining operation had started a reconciliation between the two Communist giants, whose antipathy cuts far too deep for any quick patch...
Dangling threads, unpressed seams, bulging linings, drooping hems, pop-off buttons, crooked pockets, puckered zippers, flawed fabrics and mismarked sizes are common. Seamstresses are being deluged with requests from unwary purchasers to patch up the flaws. Customers, retailers and even manufacturers acknowledge that the dress mess is critical. "It is the biggest unsolved problem in retailing," says Cyril Magnin, chairman of San Francisco-based Joseph Magnin, adding, "I spend more time on the quality problem than anything else." Margaret Dadian, vice president for the Midwest's Kay Campbell's Shops, headquartered in Evanston, Ill., calls the problem...
Ford was forced into this odd procedure by a budding driver rebellion against recalls that look to critics like mere patch-up jobs. Two weeks ago, Ford executives decided only to install an inexpensive retainer plate on a rear hub of each car. The plate is designed to increase the screeching noise that occurs when an axle starts to come loose, so that the driver cannot help noticing it, and to hold the axle in place for at least 100 miles, so that the driver has time to reach a garage. In doing no more than that, the company would...