Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Casual dealings like these would seem to make the area ripe for robberies. It is hard to say how much is stolen per year-$1.1 million worth of diamonds was reported taken during the first 2½ months of 1979-because the dealers shy away from police. Says Lieut. Edward O'Connor, commander of the Manhattan robbery squad and a former detective in the diamond district: "It's a very clandestine business. Very few people will cooperate or tell you anything...
Trying to sell electricity to a power company may seem like a quixotic gesture, but for 18 months a modern-day Man of La Mancha, Martin Greenwald of Thompson Ridge, N.Y., has been doing his best. His $4,000 windmill stands on a 44-ft. tower behind the barn on his small farm and generates only 2 kw of power. But when the wind is right (about 15 m.p.h.), he has electricity to spare. So in 1977, Greenwald, 36, an assistant professor of industrial technology at Montclair State College, offered to sell his excess power to Orange and Rockland Utilities...
...billion-will pay off in the future. In a highly inflationary economy, managers have no sound means of estimating the real cost of a long-term project, no way of knowing whether profits will cover that cost. So they delay or abandon investment projects that seem marginal or chancy. Instead, they put the company money into a smaller number of investments that seem to be sure winners-or into buying out existing companies rather than opening new branches...
...Bass and Marshall is grinding, trivial and dehumanizing, especially when it interferes with Sam's love for another associate, Camilla Newman. The attraction, however, is a mystery. Ms. Newman is profane, nasty and thoroughly obsessed by her job. Her few excursions into sex make Last Tango in Paris seem tender. When she dumps Weston to take up with Lawrence, an associate who wants to make partner the way condemned men want to live, it is difficult to grant the hero any sympathy...
...week in which President Carter has enjoyed his happiest headlines in months is a good time to discuss his feelings about the press, which might oth erwise seem to be merely sour grapes. The fact is that Carter thinks the press is ir responsible...