Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leyland was originally formed by a jerry-built amalgam of smaller companies, and that is now one reason for its troubles. Its crazy-quilt wage bargaining structure forces management to deal with 58 different bargaining units at its 34 plants; executives are involved in some kind of labor negotiation for nearly nine months of every year. Strikes, many prompted by wage differentials from plant to plant, break out frequently, with or without union authorization. In the first six months of this year, Leyland lost 9.3 million man-hours and production of about 120,000 cars because of strikes, v. losses...
Pinched by steady losses in circulation to the raunchier Penthouse and the downright sickening Hustler, and weighted down by a crazy-quilt diversification pattern (a movie company, a limousine service, hotels, books, a modeling agency), Playboy Enterprises earned only $2 million on sales of $198 million in fiscal 1976, far below its 1973 earnings peak of $11.2 million. A year ago, Hefner hired Daniels, 48, a vice president of the Knight-Ridder chain. Daniels is a onetime newspaperman (city editor, the Miami Herald) and grandson of the late North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy under...
...Howell's dairy barn near Ashland, an ore boat steams across the clapboard siding, while an orange and crimson sun descends in a peacock blue sky. At Oak Creek, a 16-ft. cultivator depicted on the John and Arthur Mahr barn stands amid a luminous crazy quilt of rolling hillsides. Past poster-bright stands of timber and grazing deer, a lumber train with trim red wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville displays primary-hued portraits of archetypal Wisconsinites: a blue-faced farmer, a crimson-haired girl...
...That year (1930) I was only 16, and life in Peking was very hard indeed. I was so poorly equipped that I did not even have any underclothes. Although I had taken my family's best quilt with me, I still shivered with cold because its cotton wadding was worn thin from age. That season in Peking there were heavy sandstorms and the nights were dismal. I had not yet come to know politics. I had no notion of the significance of 'Kuomintang' and 'Communist Party.' All I knew was that I wanted to feed...
...Inaccuracies ... clichés ... a patchwork quilt of impressions, intuitions and out-of-style dogma," say Dr. William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, they of the inquiring movie cameras and the surrogate wives...