Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were goods really cheaper? In 1933 the average annual household income was $32 a week; in 1981 it was $497 a week. So while the latest-model Kenmore upright vacuum cleaner costs $99.95 now, compared with $17.45 then, it can be paid for with a day's work, pretax, whereas the 1933 Kenmore cost nearly three days' salary. The 1982 vacuum cleans better too. Some items even have lower price tags today. Sears does not sell a twelve-tube Superheterodyne console radio any longer, but at $52.95 it could hardly be a match for this year...
Surely you have little use for a makeshift device constructed from vacuum cleaner parts, points from 1967 Mustang, and a handful of marbles. We, however, being the sentimental sort, would take great care of indeed, we would enshrine--this symbolic highlight of the 1982 football season. Please give it back. Sincerely yours, Paul E. Gray [President...
...shock waves (throwing warhead guidance systems off course), searing temperatures (high enough on the periphery of the fireball to incinerate other warheads) and a flood of radiation (highenergy gamma and X rays, plus neutrons, which would wreck a warhead's electronics). The blast would also produce the deadly vacuum characteristic of all thermonuclear explosions, destroying almost all the atmosphere in an incoming warhead's path and effectively ending its maneuvering ability. Any warheads surviving these multiple perils would probably be burned up by frictional heat as they plunged earthward at more than 5,000 m.p.h. through dust...
...parliamentary high-wire act in Rome had even seasoned observers worried. His fragile five-party coalition government riven by infighting over economic policy, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had to try twice earlier this month before his resignation was accepted by an irritated President Sandro Pertini. In the resulting political vacuum, Pertini last week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare and the mandate to form Italy's 43rd postwar government was the Christian Democratic president of the Senate...
...Catholic Conference, the civic and service agency of the bishops. Depending on the issue, the bishops may sound like sanitized Moral Majoritarians or Kennedy Democrats. Besides familiar stands (for tuition tax credits to help private-school parents; against mercy killing, sleazy TV shows and the religious vacuum in public schools), the bishops have taken distinctly liberal stances on welfare, crime, prisons, housing, national health insurance, world food policy, South Africa and the Panama Canal treaty (the bishops were strongly influenced by calls of support from Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City). The bishops have backed both Israel's right...