Word: tester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a hook, forget it. Even with a well-placed drive, you've got to burn your second shot-usually a one-or two-iron for me. You have to drop the ball right on top of the plateau on the green or face a 45-ft., nerve-tester approach putt that will break in two directions...
...because your drive has to carry the crest of a hill. It's another hole favoring the big hitter, and your tee shot should be dead straight-the hardest kind of golf shot to hit. But it's the second shot that's the real tester here, 185-200 yds. if the pin is placed on the back edge of the green or to the left near the pond. But forget the pin placement and always -I mean always-hit to the right side of the green. If you hit to the left and miss...
...model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain on my allowance. Thank you. A Concerned Consumer...
...Price Commission referred the complaint to its enforcement arm, the Internal Revenue Service, which sent an agent to the Tester plant. The IRS issued a notice of violation to Tester for clearly exceeding the 2.5% price increase guideline. Last week the Cost of Living Council announced that the Justice Department has filed a suit charging Testor with unlawfully collecting revenues in excess of $150,000. The suit also complained that Testor had hiked the price of its spray paint by 14% and recommended that a federal court order the company to reduce its prices enough to allow customers a saving...
Before any such laws are passed, Jones must build a few additional safeguards into his brainchild. How, for example, can the tester prevent an inebriated driver from cheating by calling on a friend or parking-lot attendant for help...