Word: unload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the official economy is a second, or countereconomy, which functions informally and in the best capitalist tradition. Collective farmers from Georgia and the Caucasus jet to Moscow with loads of fresh vegetables grown in their private plots and unload them for two to three times the price of wilted produce in the official market. Western-made clothing and shoes are available in government-sanctioned "commission" shops. There is also a black market in Western clothing, supplying trendy and kinky threads to modish Russians. Cost of a pair of white jeans: $30. Some items come right off the backs...
When ships are run by computers that can plot the course, set the speed according to sea conditions, load and unload tanks, and even diagnose a sick sailor's ailment, the inevitable result is boredom. The scraping and painting that busied generations of seamen are no longer necessary. The Europoort, for example, is coated with 600 tons of nearly impervious paint that requires a cosmetic fix only once every two years. Seasickness, which used to keep novice seamen running for the rail, is only a memory. The huge beam of the VLCCs-close to 200 ft.-makes them extremely...
...soon as it did, a group of blacks sought better jobs and were promptly confronted by a battery of promotion requirements. Workers had to have either a high school diploma or pass the intelligence test, which obviously had little to do with a man's ability to unload coal. The 13 blacks failed the test but were smart enough to challenge the legality of the screening process. Represented by the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, they argued that the tests illegally excluded them from promotion...
...have a friend at Cornell, odds are good that you have heard from him this week. Approximately five hundred optimistic Big Red fans who purchased tickets to the hockey nationals several months ago are now trying to unload their $16 investment...
American Philosophy. Calley returned to his company, arriving just as its casualties were being helicoptered back from an assault-six men dead and twelve wounded. Calley helped unload the helicopter: "The chopper was filled with gear-rifles, rucksacks. The thing that really hit me hard was the heavy boots. There must have been six boots there with feet still in them, brains all over the place, and everything was just saturated with blood. I believe there was one arm on [the helicopter] and a piece of a man's face." How did Calley react? "Anger . . . hate . . . fear . . . generally sick...