Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the number of leaks from the hearings, the committee staff has maintained impressive security. Scrap paper is shredded, typewriter ribbons are cut up, tapes are locked away for the night. Until three weeks ago, when all but one of the documents in the Dean collection were declassified by the committee, only Dash, Thompson and the seven Senators on the Ervin committee were allowed access to them, and they had to read the papers in the presence of a guard, who ensured that they took no notes...
...publish classic American authors. The blame, says Wilson, goes back to "our oppressive Ph.D. system of which we would have been well rid if, at the time of the First World War, when we were renaming our hamburgers Salisbury Steak and our sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage, we had decided to scrap it as a German atrocity...
...council also voted, 8-1, to scrap the CRA's previous plans for urban renewal. The previous plan called for one million square feet of office space, 400 luxury apartments and townhouses, 400 hotel suites, a retail shopping mall and a 2800-car garage...
Soon after the astronauts had rendezvoused with Skylab last month, Astronaut Paul Weitz-leaning out of the Apollo command module-had attempted to pull the jammed wing out with a long-handled tool that resembled a boat hook. But a 2-ft.-long scrap of aluminum from the ripped shield was so tightly wrapped around the bottom of the wing that it would not extend...
With machines pushing so many people out of jobs, it is comforting to learn that man can occasionally displace a machine. That is what has happened on the highways in Connecticut. Disturbed by bottlenecks at toll booths with exact-change lanes, the Connecticut department of transportation this month will scrap all toll-collecting machines and replace them with human attendants. On busy days, 300 to 350 cars an hour used to pass through the machine-tended lanes, while 600 to 650 autos moved through the lanes that were guarded by people-proving that the human hand can be quicker than...