Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a historical chip of this weight on the workingman's shoulder, it is hardly surprising that strikes have erupted because a foreman used a four-letter word in addressing workers, because the tea was not made exactly to the employees' liking, because the number of sausages in factory-canteen sandwiches was cut from two to one, or because three brewery workers were fired for guzzling more than their traditional two free pints of beer on the job. A Bristol shipyard was struck for three weeks when boilermakers and shipwrights clashed over who should trace a pencil line...
Speed & Reliability. Though creation of the microscopic circuits marks a triumph of miniaturization for an industry that is obsessed with Lilliputian dimensions, the negligible weight and small size of the ICs (more than 9,000 will fit in a thimble) are even less important than their reliability, low cost and speed of operation...
...Chickens" & "Shakemen." The ring's chief method of operation was as simple as it was effective. A decoy-the part played by Fellebaum, 27, an ex-weight lifter-would pick up a victim, usually in a bar, take him to a hotel room and engage in a homosexual act. The decoy, called a "chicken," would then steal or take by force the victim's credit cards and identification, and give them to the ring's "shakemen." Days, weeks, or even months later, the shakemen, posing as police officers, would visit the victim. They would tell him that...
...including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under a downward pressure of an estimated 1,000 lbs. per sq. ft., which is four times as much weight as modern, specially strengthened storage buildings are designed to carry. A few weeks back, a 40-lb. chunk of stone plummeted from the facade to the ground below; now Congressmen and visitors have to walk through a protective wooden tunnel, hardly in keeping with the dignity of the building...
Unenforceable Rule. The committee paid no heed to minor side effects such as acne and weight gain. Even on the major effects, the pills cannot be certified as completely safe until after years of detailed study on tens of thousands of patients. But the committee felt confident enough to recommend that the FDA stop forbidding doctors to prescribe the pills for more than four consecutive years. To this the FDA agreed. The rule is unenforceable and penalizes poor patients getting the pills at clinics. Apparently, the committee concluded, the pills cause no major harmful effects within four years...