Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model year (running from October 1977 to September 1978) will bring record sales of more than 15 million cars and trucks. (The previous high, set in 1973, was 14 million.) Irwin Kellner, economist at New York's Manufacturers Hanover Bank, agrees that the economy is "in fine shape." Adds Economist Herbert Neil of Chicago's Harris Trust: "A solid recovery is going...
Young ``wuz robbed'' of a decision against Ali over a year ago. They said Ali was out of shape. Cheered wildly by the locals of San Juan, ``Yimee'' Young outpointed George Foreman last spring. Again it was called a fluke: Foreman has brains like Kojak has hair...
...billion. The U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states helped this year with a $5.4 billion package that allowed Egypt to pay off some short-term obligations and thus save $200 million in service charges. But even with this assistance the Egyptian economy is in terrible shape. To placate his citizens, Sadat has kept the price of food staples artificially low by putting up government subsidies of nearly $1 billion annually. If Egyptians were forced to pay nonsubsi-dized prices, Sadat might be ousted by a repetition of the food riots that rocked Cairo last January. With...
...more than a meter tall, with a brain capacity about a third that of modern man. Lucy's skeleton gave scientists their best clues yet to the proportions of Australopithecus, and revealed her to be surprisingly short-legged. But the find left no doubts that she walked erect. The shape of her pelvis showed clearly that she was bipedal...
...most difficult task, however, is reconstructing an image of the creature who left these fossils behind. "It's a matter of comparative anatomy," explains Simons. "You study other animals -apes, humans and other primates. Then when you find a piece of bone, you note similarities and differences." The shape of the pelvis tells clearly whether its erstwhile owner walked on all fours or stood erect. Teeth, which are frequently preserved because of their tough, protective enamel, tell even more. Animals that eat meat need teeth shaped to cut and slice; vegetarians need broad molars to chew their fibrous foods...