Word: savers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urging of her psychiatrist, Sexton began to write verse. What started as therapy quickly became a craft, a vocation and a career. Her letters frequently refer to poetry as her life saver, but elsewhere she sees her work as appalling in its blunt candor. "Creative people must not avoid the pain that they get dealt," she writes an editor. "I say to myself, sometimes repeatedly 'I've got to get the hell out of this hurt' ... But no. Hurt must be examined like a plague...
...could be held Saturday or Sunday afternoons are better examples of light-energy abuse. No one suggests doing without a 1,000-watt hair dryer, or tells how to turn dishwasher switches through the drying cycle and open the door for air drying (the new models have an "energy saver" switch that does the same thing). Roy Stark Pensacola...
...change could cut down course duplication among the schools, administrators say--making the proposal a potential money-saver as well as an aid to students...
...copying costs by as much as 50%. The University of San Francisco found some professors were duplicating whole books instead of buying them. Some employers, among them Levi Strauss, use the system primarily to monitor depart-ment-by-department copying costs, but Leopold sees it mainly as a money saver. Says he: "Companies don't leave the petty-cash box sitting in the lobby, but each time the copier is used, it takes another nickel off the bottom line." Then again, bosses eager to save those nickels may have to reflect that many employees would accept controls on copiers...
Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, said yesterday that the team's technique was essentially a "time-saver." "Other methods of getting genes for study are more or less of a fishing expedition" because they require removing an individual gene from a large and complex chromosome, Meselson said...