Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter scrap that pits Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the eleven other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, it is far too early to predict the ultimate winners. But so far, the minority of two seems to be ahead. The Saudis appear to be attracting enough new customers to force their rivals into production cutbacks and price fiddling...
...compared with the sums involved in one of the key decisions immediately facing Carter: whether or not to build the supersonic B-l bomber, at a projected cost of $22.9 billion for a fleet of 244. Ford has ordered production to start on the first three, but Carter can scrap that plan any time in the first half of 1977. During the campaign he opposed production of the B-l "at this time" but wanted R. and D. to continue while he rethought the future need for manned bombers. His decision will shape the U.S. deterrent mix?bombers. missiles, submarines?...
This somewhat smarmy fellow (John Tillinger) advises the husband: "Scrap your tight briefs for boxer shorts . . . Bathe your testicles in the coldest water several minutes at a time . . . Central heating probably reduces more male fertility more than any other factor in the West." The pair undergoes a series of fertility rituals, fecundity postures and time efficiency tests that are clinically presented and emotionally humiliating. Anne conceives, miscarries, and the couple is turned down on a try for adoption. If the sound of heartbreak is total silence, and the eyes of pain too desolate for tears, then Maxwell and Murray...
Meanwhile, on the other mat, B.U. and Harvard were wrapped up in the tight scrap that everyone expected. The Crimson won some impressive battles, getting an 11-2 triumph from Tom Bixby (150 lbs.), yet another pin from D'agostino, and a similar effort from Kip Smith (Unl.). But B.U. won the first four bouts and three other close contests...
...Rauschenberg decided he would paint. He found some pigments and brushes. There was no privacy in the barracks, and to be seen painting would have provoked endless ridicule. One night Rauschenberg locked himself in the latrine with a scrap of cardboard on his knee and secretly made his first daub, a portrait of a Navy buddy. Thirty years later, he still thinks of that illicit first night as exemplary. "There always ought to be an element of secrecy, of criminality, about making art," he says. "But if you're successful, it's hard to maintain. We all get comfortable...