Word: placing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dusty truck loaded with guns and radio gear rolls down the Arizona highway south toward Nogales and the Mexican border, Bernell E. ("Bernie") Lawrence points toward a range of mountains. "O.K.," he drawls in a desert-dry voice, "where's the place up there you'd look for lion tracks?" He already knows. "Lions like the backbone of a set of mountains. They'll cross where two canyons meet. For them it's like climbing stairs." Lawrence is 48. For much of his life he tracked and killed mountain lions, bears and coyotes. Then society...
more than $1 million worth of gold had disappeared from the U.S. Assay Office, a fortress-like building in lower Manhattan where some 2 million oz. of gold are refined every year. Treasury officials figured that the gold rush took place some time between 1973 and 1977 but could not be more specific because of "significant irregularities" in the office's accounting procedures...
Meanwhile, shortages have begun turning up everywhere. Aluminum is in short supply, and such companies as Boeing and McDonnell Douglas must place their orders far in advance to have enough on hand to meet aircraft delivery schedules. Metalworking machinery is also scarce, as are the steel forgings needed by automakers. That, in turn, has helped create shortages of small, fuel-efficient cars, and boosts imports of competing foreign models. There is even a squeeze on fans for people who want to save money by turning off air conditioners, and shortages of insulation for homeowners who are eager to cut winter...
...make people work harder, invest more or perform some other desired objective. But people are skeptical, so such policies do not work any more. The public has also lost confidence in the prospect of a stable policy in the future, because monetary trends have been jumping all over the place." Increases in the money supply, he asserts, merely produce more inflation, not expansion of output...
...highly recommended" attorney. After crashes abroad, American lawyers have been known to travel to the villages where the victims lived, rent a hall and then invite the heirs to come and listen to a talk about "their rights." The DC-10 crash prompted a San Francisco law firm to place an ad in the Los Angeles Times headlined, in mortuary gothic letters, TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AN AVIATION DISASTER. The ad invited readers to call the firm collect for further counsel. (Twelve readers responded; so far none have signed up.) Is the ad ethical? Says California State...