Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Environmentalists and engineers know that hydrogen would make a better jet fuel than the standard aviation kerosene. In its liquid form, hydrogen packs more energy per pound than any other non-nuclear fuel and, burning, produces a plume of H2O. But there are major drawbacks, including cost. Extracting hydrogen from water or natural gas and cooling it to -423 degrees F make the fuel many times more expensive than kerosene, which goes for about...
...women would suggest that Raisa sets a realistic standard for the future. Quite the contrary. The hopes and dreams of most Soviet women in fact sound startlingly unemancipated to the Western ear. They rarely challenge the status quo, which entitles men to be waited on, first by their mothers, then by their wives and female employees. Nor do women question the concept that they should assume responsibility for all child-related matters, whether that involves family planning, child rearing or, if a marriage breaks up, child support. Says Tanya, a Moscow teacher who, like many of the women interviewed, requested...
Clothes are important, and a thrasher turnout has standard components: oversize T shirt, baggy shorts, high-top sneakers and, often topping it off, a kind of revisionist Huntz Hall cap. Those basics allow for infinite variations in color and design, and the skateboarding T shirts sold in stores like Rip City in Santa Monica, Calif., have a heady graphic punch that combines elements of biker insignia, psychedelic coloring and underground-comics' goofiness. Surfers favor light colors, but skaters go for darker hues. "Dark colors make more of a hard-core statement than bright surf wear," says Santa Monica Artist...
...award of gas leases to a company in which Wright had a $15,000 investment. Wright is said to have sought special help for a savings and loan in Texas headed by one of his largest fund raisers. A recent allegation concerns 55% book royalties (10% to 15% is standard) that Wright has received for a cut-and-paste collection of speeches and anecdotes published by Texas Friend William Carlos Moore. Over the past 13 years, Moore's businesses have received some $634,000 in consulting fees from Wright's re-election committee, leading to the suspicion that Wright...
...typical school can read up to grade level. In New York City, classroom thugs committed 1,606 assaults on school grounds last year. A showcase failure among the wreckage has been Jersey City, an 86% minority system where only 25.9% of ninth-graders can pass standard proficiency exams...