Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Popular party. He was talking about Belaúnde's land-reform program-the sensible, carefully thought-out plan that, when it was signed into law 19 months ago, was hailed by experts as the soundest ever set up in the hemisphere. For many Peruvians, the rub is that the project to settle 1,000,000 peasants on their own land and double the country's acreage under cultivation will take at least a decade, and more likely 20 years. They are not willing to wait that long...
...pany collects 2% on all Koratron-treated material, then another 1% on every garment. It requires that the Koratron trademark be prominently shown on garments, backs up the tag with a snappy advertising campaign and a quality-control program in which Koratron technicians wash, pull, rip and rub samples to make certain that they crease as they should. The company moves swiftly against patent infringements, recently won a consent decree against Los Angeles' Swede Co. for selling Koratron-processed goods without paying royalties...
...Prologue to Ben Jonson's Volpone promises to "rub your cheeks on, red with laughter. They shall look fresh a week after." The opening of Volpone at Brandeis University's new theatre has produced a curious combination not open admiration, long-lasting laughter, and problems which will last considerably longer than one week...
...technology. Because they retain their great strength even when heated to high temperatures, they have countless uses in such space-age products as Gemini capsules and jet engines. They would have countless other applications were it not for one exasperating characteristic: they cannot be used for moving parts that rub against other hunks of titanium or stainless steel. When they are, the pieces simply stick together...
Every oil known to science has failed. As soon as the metals rub themselves clean, molecules begin moving in both directions across the interface, the area of contact between the two metals. The "seizure" that results is as effective as a weld. Even machining is difficult. When a steel cutting tool is used on stainless steel or titanium, it sticks to the piece it is shaping and cuts out rough chunks instead of smooth chips...