Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master the technique of shadow. His rivers run up and down hillsides in carefree disregard of Newton, and the passengers in his buckboards are sometimes bigger than the animals that pull them. Like Grandma, he never went to art shows, completely ignored art magazines, and firmly refused to take formal instruction...
...muscle in Washington and on Wall Street. After some phone calls from the White House, the Commerce committees of both the House and the Senate began looking into the sources of Resorts' financing and whether the company might be fronting for some bigger organization in an attempt to take over Pan Am. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to prevent any outside company from acquiring more than 5% of any airline's stock without approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Volkswagen executives figure-or at least hope-that the new U.S. small cars will not cut deeply into sales of imports but will take markets away from existing U.S. lower-priced models. To reduce their own chances of loss, some foreign producers will send bigger and fancier models to the U.S. Later this year, for example, VW will begin shipping its four-door Audi (U.S. price: around $4,000). Sweden's Saab will soon begin importing a new Maverick-sized car. "If Detroit can come into our market," says Stuart Perkins, head of Volkswagen of America...
...latest washday products are designed to supplement, not take the place of, ordinary detergents. Their enzymes are bacteria-produced catalysts that break down organic matter in much the same way that the stomach digests food. In laundering, enzymes decompose protein-based stains-chocolate, grass, blood-so that they can be washed away more easily later...
...Gamble, Punch by Colgate and Drive by Lever Brothers. Regular Tide, which has been the No. 1 detergent since its introduction in 1947, has been replaced entirely by Tide XK. Eventually, the enzyme-spiked detergents may push almost all regular detergents off the supermarket shelves, even though the enzymes take so much time to soak out stains that they offer relatively modest improvement when added to quick-wash products...