Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Urban thinker William H. Whyte has read endless obituaries of the American city. He has heard it called everything from "an ecological smear" to a "behavioral sink." The future, he has been told, is elsewhere: in the suburbs, the country, anywhere but the city. Nonsense, says Whyte. "The core of the city has held. It has not gone to hell." What is more, he argues, "the city remains a magnificent place to do business, and that is part of the rediscovery of the center. While we are losing a lot of functions that we used to enjoy, we are intensifying...
...Americans' sense of horror and outrage has been numbed. Death by gunfire has become nearly as banal in the U.S. as auto fatalities; shootings are so routine that they are sometimes ignored by the local news. Only by coming face to face with the needless victims does the wastefulness sink...
...that a 320-customer survey proves consumers prefer its blue-stripped Ultra Glide razor to Gillette's white-stripped Atra Plus. Not surprisingly, Gillette has conducted its own customer survey, which it says establishes the opposite sentiment. Alas, an issue that once would have been judged at the bathroom sink now seems likely to be decided in court...
...took a job wrapping chocolates; as the candies hurtled past on a conveyor belt, the hapless duo tried to keep pace by stuffing half of them into their mouths. Seeking to emulate a pioneer woman, Lucy opened an oven to remove freshly baked bread -- and was pinned against the sink by a loaf 8 ft. long. At long last hired for a commercial, she grew increasingly malaprop attempting to pronounce Vitameatavegamin, the 46-proof tonic she was touting, and swigging, at each take...
During such an interim, many would sink into deep depression, but not McCormack. Where another person might have wallowed in self-misery, McCormack applied himself toward staying on top of his game...