Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European and Japanese cars have had to be more economical because they haven't had our resources," Paisley replies smoothly. "They probably have a five-or ten-year jump on us in small-car development, but we're catching up." The old challenge and response trick...
Dealing in this world takes a man who believes in the right principles, Nixon says, but a man who also has "street smarts" and "can play every trick ... We want him skillful, shrewd and as tough in the clutch as the other guy. The presidents of the top 50 or so corporations in the United States might be more intelligent, smoother, better poker players, have better manners, but there are no more than two or three of them I would want in a room with a healthy Brezhnev. But I do know some labor leaders I would put in there...
...Feds are not the only losers. In states where sales taxes are high, avoidance schemes abound. The simplest ruse is the empty-box trick. The customer buys a big-tag item, such as an expensive suit or shoes and makes a deal with the merchant to "mail" it to an address in a state with a lower rate. The merchant obligingly sends an empty box, and the customer walks out with the goods. A variant is to send the purchase to a friend in another state. Rob, an accountant, saved $600 on a $12,000 painting by having the gallery...
...swept up, wrung dry, and fucked over. One character explains, "We're all whores, so we might as well be the best," and that becomes the movie's warped Rockyism. These writers, producers and actors know something about being good whores, and North Dallas Forty is a grand trick; bitterly in tune with its audience, vulgar and sexy and funny enough to get up and get dressed with little loss of dignity...
Food can be grown in the most hostile environments, Coca-Cola's technicians have discovered. In the deserts of Abu Dhabi, for instance, they are raising quantities of plump tomatoes, cucumbers and beans for 10? per Ib. The trick is to grow them under an inflatable plastic dome, which captures the air's available moisture instead of allowing it to evaporate under the searing sun. Also, J. Paul Austin explains, carbon dioxide is pumped in from diesel exhausts, and the gas promotes plant growth...