Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's money markets. Indeed, because of the recent slide of the dollar, the increased value of the mark is beginning to crimp the country's exports. If West German consumers could be encouraged to spend more and if industry would increase its capital investments, the process might be reversed. But expanding the country's economy is not easy. Consumer markets are already highly-developed, and West Germany's thrifty burghers have one of the industrial world's highest savings rates (15% of net income, or about three times the U.S. figure). As a result...
...more advanced systems is a CEA process for converting garbage into a fine brown powder called Eco-Fuel II. Metals and other heavy materials are mechanically culled from the garbage (just about anything that is thrown away) before the remaining material, mostly cellulose, is treated with chemicals, then pulverized. That technique permits the fuel to be stored without decomposing. The powder can be burned more efficiently than raw garbage and can be used with oil, coal or natural gas. For example, a CEA plant in East Bridgewater. Mass., converts 1,200 tons of garbage a day into Eco-Fuel...
...vital signs of three gasping women's magazines, including the venerable American Home (circ. 2.25 million). In the past few years the 49-year-old magazine confused advertisers with numerous ownership and editorial changes, building up a current deficit of $5 million in the process. After the February issue American Home will be folded into Redbook by the owner of both, the Charter...
...again. Another pair of headlights appears behind the electrician's truck, but this time there is something peculiar about their shape. Dreyfus waves this vehicle on also, but instead of going around the truck, it goes up and over it--revealing all sorts of blinking, heterochromatic lights in the process...
...York is already well on its way to becoming a dark island in a lighter suburban sea, and the flight of the middle class has already cut into the city tax base with disastrous effect. Overzealous pursuit of numerical racial equity by federal bureaucrats will greatly speed this process, with unfortunate results for everyone concerned--black and white...