Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less easy to explain away was a steep rise in industrial commodity prices. Many basic products, including aluminum, rubber and various plastics, are getting more expensive all the time -and manufacturers have been moved, or at least tempted, to reflect the real or anticipated higher cost of supplies in their own prices. Take James Brownell, vice president of Florida-based Weatherking, Inc., maker of air conditioners: "I have seen in the past several months price increases from my vendors slip upward from five to seven percent. It scares the daylights...
...specialist in medieval Russian history, Keenan is currently director of the Russian Research Center, a post he plans to abandon when he takes his new job July 1, pending confirmation--usually rubber-stamped--by the Corporation and the Board of Overseers in the coming month...
...seems that you city-slickers up there in Cambridge could learn a little more about Mother Nature. Crimson sportswriter Robert Sidorsky reported that Big Red fans at the Cornell-Harvard hockey game tied "a rubber chicken" to Petrovek's goal. Well, any self respecting Cornellian could tell you that that chicken was as live as a cow in heat. If Sidorsky can't tell the difference between a rubber chicken and a real one maybe he better come out here to the country for a few days; we would be happy to teach a city boy like him the facts...
...focused primarily on works about to go on exhibit. Transporting these objects often raises as many problems as, say, refinishing or mending them, he added. Special cases are designed to protect against bumps and the atmosphere. Yet the preventives, like their medical counterparts, often have unexpected side effects. Black rubber, which is often used to cushion picture frames from handling shocks in transit, tarnishes the metal. An experiment with a copper dish and this "dark enemy" goes on under a glass cover in a corner. And the lauded modern plastic adhesives, though stabler than old synthetics, tend to deteriorate...
...liberals in the Congress are likely to call for more social-action programs. The Congress is in a stubborn mood, determined to regain its powers. Says House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "There is no confrontation, but this is no rubber-stamp Congress...