Word: sub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Government collusion with the oil companies in their opposition to synthetic fuels has been largely confined to the sub-cabinet level. The exchange of personnel and other lateral interchanges between the oil industry and the middle levels of the government energy management bureaucracy should not continue. Anti-trust action directed at the oil companies and the separation of government agencies and the industry will avoid further exclusion of synthetic fuels from the energy market. The recent quadrupling of global petroleum prices has changed oil industry price fixing from an international annoyance to a vital economic issue...
Once he gets his manpower on campus, the soft-spoken Chesbro, 35, puts them through a wearing training regimen. Beginning in September, three months before the season opens, wrestlers work out three to four hours a day, concentrating on melting off every ounce of "Sub-Q-Fat"-their abbreviation for subcutaneous fat. That struggle continues through the season as wrestlers work to make their weight division before each match. Frequently they go without food for 18 hours before weigh-in, then stoke up in the five hours between weigh-in and match...
...many of the unemployed, the auto industry's disaster is not yet quite real. The moment of personal financial reckoning is held off by the Supplemental Unemployment Benefit checks that ensure that laid-off auto workers continue to receive nearly 95% of their usual take-home pay. But SUB funds are rapidly being depleted; at current rates of payout, they could run out as early as May for some workers. The checks are what keep the juke joints along Wyoming and Livernois avenues full and make it possible for many unemployed workers to go hunting or take family trips...
...white-collar residents are being laid off at levels not seen since the 1930s; 20,000 have been sidelined at Chrysler alone. Charles Beaudet, 52, a $22,000-a-year sculptural designer for Chrysler, was furloughed just before Christmas. He supports his wife and five children on his SUB checks, but he has cut out the monthly case of wine, the symphony concerts and other civilized frills. Beaudet worries that his self-respect is going too. "It hurts," he says, describing the experience of standing in an unemployment line. "It's demoralizing." Bankruptcy declarations rose 41% last year...
...unsettling emphasis to a certain kind of publicity skill. George Washington would have made a dull TV performer. As the first effective television President, Kennedy proved how important it was to be fast on his feet. This helped to set a demanding new standard that elevates flash over sub stance. The effect of television - which in one year can make an unknown face tiresomely overfamiliar - has been to disqualify able but uncharismatic men, and to make others (Humphrey and Muskie come to mind) glib parodies of their once more impressive selves...