Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manage to find a pattern. All his heroes share rationality and expertise, none are geniuses but all are talented. Steering clear of poets, not to mention saints, prostitutes and writers, he concentrates on the sane. His ideals are Jeffersonian-farmers wander in and out of his collections, and inventors rank only below professional canoeists in his pantheon. Meet Richard Eckert, a man given to "gray suits, gray socks, black shoes, white shirts and Paisley ties," who invents the wave-tossed nuke while he is "standing wet, naked and soapy in his shower." This, perhaps, is inspiration of a sort...
...best part of the exhibition is un questionably its feather work. The Bish op Museum has an unrivaled collection of the cloaks and capes worn by Hawaiians of high rank, and few garments in the history of costume display so dense a concentration of labor and material...
...future. During that period, they will be hard-pressed to satisfy the demand for small cars, and the gap will be filled by imported autos, especially from Japan. Already, foreign-made cars have captured as much as 30% of the U.S. market, and Toyota and Datsun now rank right behind GM and Ford as the world's largest auto producers. To win buyers back it will take superior products and strong selling techniques. Otherwise there will be a lasting reduction in U.S. auto production, which would have far-reaching implications for the whole U.S. economy...
...fast, hard fall of the U.S. auto industry will doubtless rank as one of the most remarkable collapses in the annals of American business. Even makers of horse-drawn carriages and buggy whips did not see their markets and profits disappear so quickly. Just 18 months ago, Detroit was fearful that it could not build enough big V-8-powered sedans to meet consumer demand. The industry in 1978 rang up $3 billion in profits. One hot-selling car: the $6,300 Oldsmobile Cutlass. It got a modest twelve miles to the gallon, but it had lots of vroom...
...grow up in a small town is to have not a number but a name and rank that are known to everybody, and a history too. It is to understand not how Edgar Lee Masters wrote Spoon River Anthology, but how he got his material, how he came to know the secret lives of so many so well. A small town rearing consists, by and large, of getting to know and to be known by everybody, and to feel that intimate communal familiarity as both affectionate support and unrelenting intrusion; the flight from intimacy to the city's anonymity...