Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brave new world of self-management was evident at the new Wheel cooperative at the Lenin site. The slogans hanging from the rafters read like proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanack: HOW YOU LOOK SHOWS HOW YOU LOVE YOUR WORK and WHAT YOU SAVE TODAY WILL BE OF USE TOMORROW. No one seemed to need the prompting. Workers actually tended to their machines, instead of congregating in the aisles or staring off into space. Output had tripled, pilfering had plummeted, and alcohol abuse had declined so much that the janitor no longer found enough empty bottles to make a twice...
...into automated-teller machines and employed at checkout counters to verify that a person is not using a stolen credit card. "In time," predicts Joseph Freeman, head of a security market-research and consulting firm in Newtown, Conn., "you'll be able to touch a spot on your steering wheel and start your...
...1970s were only a bad dream, consumers have been content to step on the gas. Sales of light trucks and four-wheel-drive vehicles, which generally guzzle more fuel than autos, have set U.S. sales records for four of the past five years. Small wonder: the price of gasoline, adjusted for inflation, is at its 1965 level. Among customers choosing a recreational vehicle, says Bill Jocoy, a salesman at Northwoods RV Supermarket in Lansing, Mich., mileage per gallon ranks only fifth or sixth among their priorities, after color and floor plan...
Clara N. Lee '89, one of the conference organizers, said, "There have been a lot of unconnected programs in the past and as a result there has been a lot of reinvention of the wheel...
Lawrence's only "real life" friend is Joanna. And despite her paranoid tendencies, Joanna is a swell friend. She tells Lawrence about her daily adventures outside. In return, he lets her play with his toy ferris wheel...