Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such cases, policyholders have been suing to recover from the insurance companies, and they have been winning. The Maryland Court of Appeals recently upheld such a judgment on the grounds that the insurance company involved, State Farm Mutual, had "an obligation not merely to exercise good faith, but to use due care" in looking out for the interests of the insured. State Farm had passed up three chances to settle an auto-accident case for a total that was less than the eventual jury verdict-even though its lawyer had indicated that the company's chances of winning...
...York, they are more likely to judge the 20th century's standards of beauty by shards of Corning Ware, martini mix ers and stainless-steel subway turnstiles than by whatever fragments of painting and statuary survive. Yet the average American takes the artifacts of every day use for granted. He rarely appre ciates the well-designed objects and manages to ignore the ugly ones...
...items intended for outdoor and public use emphasize how relatively rare and experimental are such attempts to beautify the cityscape. The instances include Cambridge Seven's Boston subway turnstiles and New York's $1,000,000 vest-pocket Paley Park (all necessarily shown in photographs only). Scholars of the 30th century may well conclude that, like the Greeks and Romans, urban Americans turned inward from their streets and sacrificed freely to the household gods, glorified their public squares and buildings, but left the ordinary thoroughfares to stray cats and garbage collectors...
...response to angry criticism by home-front scientists, the Pentagon last week released a detailed study of the use and effects of herbicides. Although the report was preliminary and limited, its conclusions were clear: so far, there is no evidence that there will be long-range damage to plant or animal life in South Viet...
...present, there is little doubt that defoliation operations will continue. Says the MRI report: "The ecological changes caused by herbicides at the current rate of use have in no measure reached the proportion of ecological disturbance caused by the plow, ax and uncontrolled burning...