Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boards of directors v. 20 just five years ago. Women are increasingly joining the ranks of management, at least at the lower levels. A revealing case is that of the Georgia Pacific Corp., a Portland, Ore., wood products giant. Four years ago, women employed in its management were very rare; now half of its credit managers are female, along with 15% of its sales force. Says La Mar Newkirk, a Georgia Pacific spokesman: "Five or six years ago, where would you find a woman who could talk to customers about grades and specifications of lumber and plywood...
...omen that the U.S.S.R. planned to buy more gram than would be necessary with a good harvest, but it lifted world freight rates by 15%,which should also have produced alarm. Finally, U.S. prices of wheat and corn took a slight upward tick from August through October, a rare happening at harvesttime, when prices are almost always depressed. The only explanation: large foreign purchases...
...along with the Norton Co., a leading position in abrasives-grinding materials essential for all elements of the metal-bending business. The company has great hopes for experiments now being conducted in its new laboratory near Niagara Falls, where it hopes to produce materials that will replace the rare metals that endure high temperatures in turbines and jet engines...
...state welfare worker in Budapest. As a catalogue of human detritus, the novel was both powerful and disturbing; in its rapid-fire vignettes and tortured ruminations, it strained toward poetry. Konrád was justifiably praised as a promising new international voice and as something even more rare-a sociologist who can write...
...Straus & Giroux; $6.95), Gary Bowen invents a character, True Mason, and walks him through a 19th century New England village. Bowen's style is lean and precise. But it is his and Randy Miller's brilliantly detailed wood engravings that grant My Village the aura of a rare antique rescued from some forgotten attic. David Macaulay has won an international reputation without being able to draw believable people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does better than any other pen-and-ink illustrator in the world. His previous books have examined the construction and administration...