Word: rubberizing
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...rather than massive foreign aid, to build modern, developed economies. The nations in this category include the revenue-rich members of OPEC (Organization of Oil Exporting Countries), as well as states whose development may be guaranteed by other key natural resources: Zaire and Zambia (copper), Morocco (phosphates), Malaysia (tin, rubber and timber). Into this group also fall nations like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Mexico and Brazil, which are developed enough to attract foreign investment and borrow on commercial terms...
...body care." The Japanese, who have always had a highly civilized attitude toward hygiene, already have a design for the ultimate shower machine: the bather selects the desired water temperature and soap, pushes a button and is then soaked, washed with suds produced by ultrasonic waves, rinsed, massaged with rubber balls and finally dried with heat lamps. A big step toward civilized johnmanship is the "AD 2000 Comfort Control Center," a prototype built by Olsonite of Detroit. Mounted on a conventional toilet, it provides a tilting, vibrating back, reading light, ashtray, radio, TV, tuner and bidet attachment. To bring...
...food prices, and high unemployment (running to more than 1 million out of a population of 13 million). To head off possible uprisings, the government announced cuts in basic commodity prices and moved ahead with the second phase of a nationalization program, involving the mostly British-owned tea, rubber and coconut plantations...
...article dodges the problem of assassination by telling us that the criminal, not the gun, is responsible for the crime. Actually, the final cause of death is the bullet, and so by this logic bullets should all be made of sponge rubber so as to not hurt anyone. But what's the use of the "Psychology of the Killer" theory anyway, since the man can't be caught until the crime is committed? By then it's a bit late for people like Robert Kennedy and George Wallace. In contrast, I doubt if Oswald could have killed John Kennedy from...
...delight of her fervent followers, five justices of the Supreme Court of India last week ruled that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was innocent. In separate but concurring opinions, the judges upheld the legality of the 1975 election-law amendment-passed retroactively by India's rubber-stamp Parliament after opposition members either were arrested or walked out-that changed the statutes under which Mrs. Gandhi had been found guilty of corrupt campaign practices. In essence, the ruling reversed the June Allahabad high court decision that would have barred her from holding elective office for six years...