Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Growing old gracefully is a poetic ideal, but in real life, according to recent studies in Chicago, people are more likely to survive into a ripe old age if they are grouchy and pugnacious. Passive senior citizens seem to lack the moxie necessary to deal with all the natural shocks that aging flesh is heir...
...longer run, there is much more that the U.S. can do. One area ripe for improvement is the generation of electricity at the power plant; all but 38% of the fuel used goes up in smoke or heat. Industry, which uses 40% of the nation's energy, could slash its requirements by a quarter if it followed a common European practice: install devices to capture heat escaping from stacks and other outlets...
This year could change the trend. I haven't even gone out for Alka-Seltzer for the Sunday morning aftermath. And from the way things have been going this year in the Ivy League, the time seems ripe for a new script...
Along the way, the chairman has shown a refreshing tendency to get out of any business that was unsuccessful-or that merely seemed ripe for sale at a profitable price. Dart started out as a drugstore clerk and rose to become general manager of the Walgreen drug chain in nine years; then he moved on through other executive posts in the drug business and wound up as chairman of the Rexall drug chain, which he turned into the foundation of Dart Industries. That did not prevent him from selling off the Rexall stores piecemeal, until today there are only...
...city's long-range problems. It will cost billions of lire, which Naples clearly does not have, to upgrade the sanitation system. Meanwhile, the city's multitude of hard-core unemployed has been swelled by thousands of jobless fishermen, restaurant workers, peddlers and dockers. All are ripe targets for the violent rhetoric of left-wing and neofascist agitators. The disease may have been contained, but it will be a long time before Naples recovers from a more damaging illness: il dopocolera, the after-cholera...