Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, when Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic for two hours, 100,000 New Yorkers walked up and down in an eerie quiet. In vacant lots, on roadsides from Boston to Sacramento, schoolchildren gathered up beer cans, soda bottles and old tires, as if picking up after a violent party...
black cow-a delicious soda...
...comfortable. He seemed destined for Yale and a happily-ever-after life, but just before he was to go to New Haven his father died and there was no money for college. O'Hara went on to a spectacularly varied assortment of jobs-freight clerk, steel-mill worker, soda jerk, gas-meter reader and deckhand-before turning to writing...
Meanwhile, the Louisiana debacle has apparently taught Hickel that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of indemnity. Hickel issued a stern warning to Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, a German company that plans to build a petrochemical complex on an unpolluted saltwater estuary near the lush island resort of Hilton Head, S.C. In a letter to Hans Lautenschlager, president of B.A.S.F.'s American af filiate, Hickel made it clear that he would not tolerate any pollution. "This department," he wrote, "will strenuously oppose any action which would result in the degradation of the water quality in that...
...competing efficiencies. In its crowded and complex society, the goals of individuals often conflict with those of larger groups, making one man's efficiency another man's inefficiency. To take a simple example, the man who drinks soda or beer likes the "one-way bottle." He can drink up and toss it away, rather than return it for a refund. But that little everyday luxury builds up a mountain of hard-to-dispose-of garbage. To the shopkeeper, efficiency means getting merchandise delivered at the start of every business day. Result: trucks flood the streets, producing traffic jams that...