Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mentioned with folksy pride his determination to save Government money: "We have tried to eliminate waste at every corner. I don't believe that we are going to make the Treasury over by cutting out a few automobiles or turning out a few lights. But I do think it is a good example when you walk through the corridor and you see the closets where lights burn all day and all night just because someone didn't turn them off." He spoke of the need to take a fresh view of U.S. relations with recalcitrant allies: "People feel...
Sandia's men are not suggesting that all computers should now be taught to talk and think in decimal numbers, but they are convinced that for certain kinds of machine memory a decimal storage system could save much space and cost. Improved ceramic may soon be able to store more than 9 digits, but even the present wafers have obvious advantages. Stored away in binary notation, the number 99 takes seven memory units (1100011), whatever the memory , is made of-holes in a card or magnetic cores. In Sandia's decimal memory system, it would take only...
...Chronicle is essentially a simple drama of destinies and moralities. Father Leander Wapshot's wonderful journal (found in a trunk in the attic) recites like a Greek chorus the ancient obligations to race and region. He had taught his sons to "fell a tree, sow, cultivate and harvest, save money, countersink a nail, make cider with a hand press, clean a gun, sail a boat, etc." But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe. Leander's two sons, Moses and Coverly, were expelled...
...president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Jervis Langdon Jr., 59, is a realist as well as a third-generation railroader: he takes a train out on business trips but flies home to save time. To tempt other businessmen to ride the rails at least one way, Langdon's B. & O. last week announced a 31% cut in some first-class fares between Eastern cities and the Midwest. If the lure fails, the B. & O. will move to end its money-losing passenger service. This kind of pragmatism, coupled with assistance from the Chesapeake & Ohio that controls...
Hayes revealed that the city council may take action to minimize the number of evictions the expressway will cause. Agreeing with McCann that it was now inevitable that the highways would enter Cambridge, he said he was studying a scheme that would save well over a thousand families from eviction...