Word: tars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than half of what they were last year, is going further than most. It has begun to drill its own gas wells in Ohio and Pennsylvania, build stockpiles of oil, and redesign furnaces so that they can be easily switched from gas to oil, propane and even tar. Says Chief Executive Robert J. Buckley: "We are working vigorously to have far greater capability next year and in the long-term future to deal with such an energy crisis, for we are well aware that it could happen again...
...common knowledge that last night's 67-59 win over the Tar-Heels was Al Maguire's last game as Marquette's coach. Now I'm not going to say anything dramatic like "Oh! What a fitting way to end a glorious career!" but it does make one think about what an important asset timing is in an athletic career...
...just don't need the mind to explain smoking. When plasma nicotine is below the smoker's usual level, he smokes: when it is at his level, he doesn't." Schachter agrees with other researchers who have recommended development of a new high-nicotine, low-tar, low-gas cigarette. Current low-tar, low-nicotine brands, he says, may be lethal. "You wind up spending more, smoking more and getting far more dangerous combustion products for the same nicotine payoff as stronger cigarettes. Worse, it's probably a good guess that the low-tar brands are hooking...
Other quintets copping first place ballots were North Carolina and Michigan. The Tar Heels took over the number five position, as well as three first place votes, with routs of Clemson and Virginia, while the Wolverines, everyone's pre-season choice for number one, held the sixth spot with three wins last week...
...middle of a junk-crammed environment?Manhattan?a place that every week threw away more artifacts than were made in a year in 18th century Paris. An afternoon's stroll could furnish him with a complete "palette" of things to make art with: cardboard cartons, striped police barriers, sea tar, a stuffed bird, a broken umbrella, a shaving mirror, grimy postcards. These relics were sorted out in his studio, glued to surfaces, punctuated with slathers of paint. They emerged as large-scale collages, to which Rauschenberg gave the name combines. At first they were relatively flat. Collection was almost...