Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balance Sheet. In a nation with a 25% literacy rate, the Parsis can boast that more than 90% of the sect's members can read and write. Despite the widespread hunger and poverty of India, the Parsi poor rarely starve; in the city of Bombay alone, one trust established by wealthy members of the sect provides low-income housing for more than 6,000 Parsi families and welfare payments for the unemployed...
...challenged nonetheless by a lesser god of evil, whom Zoroaster's followers later named Ahriman. Caught up in the unending war of these two deities, man was constantly faced with an existential choice of doing good or ill; at the end of his life, his personal balance sheet of good and evil deeds would determine whether he went to Vahishta-ahu (heaven) or to hell...
Bunnies in London's Playboy Club are being fired for loafing. Construction workers have been known to take breaks to play soccer in the street. Automobile sheet-metal stampers linger in their locker room calculating the football pools, while the foreman hopefully chants, "Back to the benches, mates." The title of Peter Sellers' 1959 film, I'm All Right, Jack, satirizing the idleness in "the farewell state," has become part of England's language, summing up all the nation's cosseted, truculent, archaic featherbedding...
More to Come. Even so, official figures do not yet reflect some of the biggest recent price hikes, notably the early August 2.3% boost in sheet-steel prices, which promises to push up the price tags on everything from nails to new autos this fall. And there is much more to come. Cement makers have boosted prices by 10? to 20? per bbl. in several areas, effective in November or January. On Sept. 1, Detroit's unionized barbers will increase men's hair cuts from $2.25 to $2.50. Incensed by that "annual holdup," the Detroit News only half...
...Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade, it has faintly but frighteningly threatened to become a vast dead sea of green slime...