Word: slivers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortable pop sociology the book is a failure, too. The sliver of life Prescott concentrates on was small, and almost incomprehensible without being placed in some sort of context. And he makes no attempt to develop a context. He just chronicles his own activities...
Jenkins, who has poured in 14 points per contest, bounced back from a six-pointer performance against B.C., for a 20-point game that sunk the Bruins. Jenkins & sliver, Inc., outrebounded Brown...
...degree. After leaving the department in 1961, he ran for the city council in his racially mixed neighborhood; he won and has stayed in the 15-member council ever since. He always seems to be the same man under any conditions, representing, says an admirer, the "black sliver of the white puritan ethic...
...Mitsubishi and Mitsui industrial complexes-brought in 62% of the foreign goods purchased by Japan and sold half the nation's exports. Their total sales came to an astounding $76 billion, twice the size of the Japanese national budget. The companies earn their profits on massive turnover despite sliver-thin margins (1.8% last year...
Invented in Czechoslovakia eleven years ago, the object of the excitement is a sliver of porous plastic, slightly larger than a regular contact lens, that becomes soft and pliable when it touches the tears of weak-eyed wearers. Because of its agreeable flabbiness, the soft contact lens can be fitted in one sitting, as compared to four for hard contact lenses. Ophthalmologists generally agree that the soft variety is more comfortable and less likely to become scratched or to pop out unexpectedly than the hard kind. There are some 90 million near-and far-sighted Americans, but only 10 million...