Word: smoothly
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...have anything unless you have a decent business." Right now the steel company is both the largest employer and taxpayer in the state. Employees have always had their own in-house union, unaffiliated with the United Steelworkers of America, and relations with management have been comparatively smooth (no strikes since the Depression) and rewarding (wages and benefits average $24.65 an hour, compared with about $22 for Steelworkers nationally...
...House debate began last week, both Lockheed and Boeing extolled their planes in a flurry of splashy full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Smooth-tongued Georgians led the House forces for the C-5B, which is to be built in Marietta, Ga., while a squadron of Boeing backers from Washington and Kansas derided Lockheed's plane as the Edsel of the air. Democratic Representative Thomas Downey of New York echoed Boeing supporters: "The C-5B is in the top five of turkeys. The alltime turkey hall of fame...
...Manning standing as comfortably and solidly as the Washington Monument. "Where y'all been?" he would ask Barbara Walters or Dan Rather. Manning, of course, had already tamed the natives and educated them in the ways of the American media. He was calm and shrewd and as smooth as sour mash from Tennessee, from whence he hailed. He never failed. Somehow, the mobile White House was always plugged into the rest of the world...
More sophisticated and more expensive than the stylus disc, the laser-vision disc not only offers enormous storage capacity but provides random access and perpetual durability. A low-powered laser beam "reads" billions of microscopic pits of information imprinted on the smooth, shimmering disc. On each side are stored 54,000 images, any one of which can be called up instantly on command. The stylus and laser systems are incompatible, which leads to a great deal of consumer confusion. Moreover, unlike the video cassette recorder, the systems cannot record from television. Currently there are three videodisc machines on the market...
...Blade Runner: "The environment in the film is almost a protagonist." He and other talented craftsmen are lavishing their imaginations on graphic design-on high-tech spaceships and déja vu futurism-and allowing the characters to wander through a labyrinthine narrative like lost dwarfs. Moviegoers seeking the smooth propulsion of story line look at these films and ask, "What's going on here?" Directors and effects specialists, plumbing the resources of a technology that can show what has never been seen before, answer: "The here is what's going on. The setting, the surroundings, the texture...