Word: saversion
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TRANSPORTATION. In this sector, which now accounts for 25% of total U.S. energy use, the prime offender is the automobile. It not only operates inefficiently (using only about 20% of the energy potential in gasoline; the rest is thrown off in heat and exhaust), but also is used wastefully. The...
Danny comes from West Texas cattie-handling stock. He has never been any place he could not drive to, and he loves the road and his car. He is also hooked on trashy highway food: butter rum Life Savers, Peanut Planks, cheap cheeseburgers. A brief, miserable marriage does not alter...
A nervous, confused quiet returned to the exchange markets. Treasurers of multinational corporations and money speculators began searching for other currencies that might rise in value. They started buying the Japanese yen, the world's most obviously undervalued money, which is likely to rise within several months. The speculation...
The leveling of the inflationary spiral was as important as the business decline in calming social tensions. Since early 1969 the inflation rate has not increased, though it has yet failed to decline noticeably. When prices began to rise in 1966, those relationships became distorted. Savers were penalized and speculators...
Squibb Beech-Nut Inc. is test-marketing a dime pack of its famous Life Savers. To justify the increase, company officials contend that they have improved the product. They no longer will have mere flavors, but "super flavors"-23 kinds selected from 700 recipes that were tried out on volunteer...