Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Navy psychologists also note that submariners tend to "burn out" during a four-year hitch-although they make only two cruises (each lasting two or three months at the longest) a year, only 20% sign up for more. The Navy experts have doubts that the submarine crews could endure missions of much longer than three months without suffering serious psychological difficulties...
...hire me if I got my teeth and nose fixed. I said I would when I had the money, but I figured it might take me a while to get around to it-if ever." That time never came. That gapless smile in ads is not a sign of capitulation. It is a result of a tiny false tooth Hutton inserts when working...
...chain is going on to new triumphs: adding an average of one new outlet every day to its 2,500 in the U.S., and hanging on every one a sign reading OVER 12 BILLION SOLD to commemorate an event that occurred during August. Executives at world headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., a Chicago suburb, have not bothered to investigate who ate the 12 billionth hamburger, when or in which restaurant, because they know that its consumption constituted only an ephemeral milestone. In four months or less, given the current intensity of the nation's hamburger hunger, those signs will...
...some critics, the success of that machine is a devastating comment on American values. Pop Sociologist Vance Packard laments: "This is what our country is all about-blandness and standardization." Novelist Vance Bourjaily extravagantly views McDonald's popularity as a sign that America is "a failing culture." He explains: "This country is full of people who have forgotten what good food is. Eating in most countries is a basic pleasure, but people in the U.S. don't eat for pleasure. To them, eating is just something done in response to advertising...
...event that Crone doesn't sign with another football team for this season, he says that he will find a job and apply for admission to business school...