Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes wonder what would have happened if there had been a Congressman Ugh way back then to ask of what value was fire, considering the problem of substandard caves. Thank heavens for those who asked way back why not instead of why, and for those who throughout history agreed with Norwegian Explorer Fridtjof Nansen that "it is ... of no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge-man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so he is no longer...
...split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families around Los Angeles outnumbered those in the city's heart. With an astonishing 40% of the nation's poor now living in suburbs, crime and pollution problems are growing at the same rate there as in the central cities. Many suburbanites...
...have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened to a system of gears whose teeth had been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy, pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell...
...warranty work, allowing only a 25% profit margin for parts, compared with the 40% or more that a dealer can charge for nonwarranty work. As a result, dealers usually do warranty work only on cars that they have sold. The work they do, says the FTC, is often "substandard" because the mechanic is urged on to other jobs...
...millions, New York is an increasingly unfavorable habitat. Within the past two to three years, rents on noncontrolled apartments have risen as much as 100%-with hikes of 40% and 50% common. Still, 800,000 units, a quarter of the city's dwellings, are listed as substandard. Replacing them would be a task equal to rebuilding two-thirds of blitz-shattered London, and several of the impoverished ghettos are as big as medium-sized cities. Traffic is scarcely better; every day 3,500,000 people crowd into nine square miles of Manhattan south of Central Park, the equivalent...