Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital spending will not go for expansion, as it always has before, but for modernization to make industry more efficient and competitive. About 70% of the programmed spending will go for new or better equipment instead of bricks and mortar. In today's economy, modernization is more vital to industry than ever before, because competition is fiercer than ever both at home and abroad. Inland Steel's Block competes against U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, but both have to compete against Japanese and German steelmakers; all the free world's steelmakers, of course, compete against aluminum...
...electronics and computer experts cursed at the refusal of a simple, 275-h.p. diesel engine to start so that the servicing gantry could be rolled away from the poised missile. Although the diesel finally was repaired, the launch was scrubbed at T-minus-13 because of trouble with a vital tracking radar at Bermuda. Cooper could only have been disappointed by the delay, but as he walked slowly away from the missile, he summoned up a grin. "I was," he said, "just getting to the real fun part...
Hong Kong is suffering critically from the longest drought in years. The vital textile dyeing industry lost an estimated $1,700,000 in the first four months of this year. The only brewery faces curtailed production, and deliveries of soft drinks have fallen 60%. The reservoirs are so nearly dry that Hong Kong authorities last week imposed a strict new ration on the city: four hours of running water every other day. In private homes water is used first for bathing, then for washing clothes, finally for gardens. Ordinarily. Hong Kong buys 5 billion gallons of water annually from...
George McGrath, Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction, points out that the Gluecks "were able to find the resources to do the very expensive but vital research involved in following-up their subjects working with agencies which very rarely permitted access to their records. They were quite alone in this field for many years...
...cream puff"-the car in good condition with a good paint job-they are doing so well now that many find little trouble in unloading the beat-up dogs. Boost from Below. The horse-trading system of selling new cars in the U.S. makes the used car a vital factor in new-car sales: in 74% of all new-car sales the dealer takes a used car as a trade-in. Bargaining is so hard that the dealer usually makes no profit until he sells the used car. If used cars are not selling, he understandably lowers the amount...