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Word: sheet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beans by force. As TV cameras whirred, Cryts replied, "I intend to remove my private property." Then the marshals and FBI agents, who made no secret of their sympathy for Cryts, obligingly stood aside while a tinworker from Kansas City jimmied a hole in the elevator's sheet-metal wall. With the marshals watching, the farmers spent two days hauling out Cryts' beans. When the farmers were finished, they repaired the sheet metal, repainted the elevator wall and neatly swept the grounds. Farmers around the country have since sold the beans on the open market, sending Cryts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bean Raid | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...almost didn't want my check," says Roxie. "He was worried that I was closing the account. We only had one card of everything, and now they threw two cards on us." "We started moving up in cars," adds Bill. From "a junker, tied together with a sheet," they progressed to a newer used car and then their first new Ford Galaxie in 1965. "Of course, all this was on time," says Bill. all this was on time," says Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Way of Debt | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Computerized inventory control has proved especially helpful to heavy industries like steelmaking. More than simply keeping track of large stockpiles of raw materials, such as iron ore and coking coal, steel firms also have to make sure that stocks of finished goods, ranging from rolled steel to ingots, sheet metal, cable and wire, are neither too large nor too small for projected demand. Says Albert E. Martz, a general manager for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh (1981 sales: $4.7 billion): "As a result of higher interest rates, we are trying to run leaner and operate closer to the bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Control of Inventories | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

Dozens of sign-carrying demonstrators dodged rush-hour traffic in downtown Memphis to pass out leaflets to motorists. Ron Thomas, a clean-cut Memphis State University junior, wore a sheet and a homemade death mask for the event. "I call myself a Christian," he says, "and if I'm really serious about the religious commands of peace, then I felt I had to do something about nuclear weapons." At Yale, 1,000 people filled the university chapel to hear Evangelist Billy Graham, a very recent convert to the cause, denounce nuclear war as the ultimate sin. In Rochester, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Consciousness Raising | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...reminded her that a year ago to the day we had run down to MIT together and encountered an exhausted, but elated finished wrapped in a protective silver sheet, and that we had decided after talking to him that we would run this year...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Let the Good Times Roll | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

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