Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice, of course, if the recession were simply a figment of pessimists in remote broadcast studios and wire rooms, but for millions of Americans it is all too real. And those who still live in relatively prospering communities are unlikely to take the advice of the ads and tune out. There is doubtless a certain guilty gratification in tuning in every night just to see how well off they...
...When the tune comes to take the patient off the conventional heart-lung machine and close his incision, the ends of the tubes are connected to a simple roller pump. The pump draws oxygenated blood from the left atrium and injects it forcibly into the aorta. The first time the system was used, the pump was doing 65% of the heart's work three hours after the operation. By the fifth hour, the heart had recovered sufficiently to perform 50% of its normal function. By the twelfth hour, the heart was carrying 78%, and by the 42nd hour...
...then there was Watergate, remember that? Remember all of the song-and-dance routines back then like "There Will be No Whitewash at the White House," and "I Will Not Place the Blame on Subordinates." Surely you can't forget that catchy tune. "Nobody Has Cornered the Morality Market," and the ever-popular "In the Interests of National Security...
...same tune, Grants developed an identity problem: having always pursued a bargain-minded blue-collar trade, the chain suddenly began broadening and upgrading its lines of clothing, furnishings and appliances in an apparent effort to try to compete with J.C. Penney and Sears. To make these costlier goods easy to buy, the company peddled a variety of credit-card plans that eventually led it into a financial culdesac. To buy inventory, Grants borrowed heavily at high rates, and then had to wait for customers to pay their bills...
Some of the stories of these interjected characters seem overheard; others are told by Laura herself. Their precise meanings are elusive, their relevance to Laura indeterminate. Yet all equate the passing of tune with irreparable loss, and Laura comes to understand the relationship between her dead brother and Jim: "I want to be as he is now, to crouch at the starting line and I'm furious that...