Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...larger number of property-oriented crimes: robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft. There is some question as to whether police efforts have been as important to that trend as the increasing tendency to resort to such individual defensive tactics as private alarm systems and auto steering-wheel locks...
...experiment conducted to refine the technique of nuclear drilling. As for radioactivity levels in the gas, the AEC says that improvements in bomb design will minimize the problem in future blasts. Those improvements would presumably be incorporated into both the Rio Blanco devices and Project Wagon Wheel, a five-bomb, 500-kiloton underground explosion scheduled...
...will. Writes Italian Psychoanalyst Roberto Assagioli: "The will can be truly called the unknown and neglected factor in modern psychology, psychotherapy and education." San Francisco Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis agrees. "Knowledgeable moderns put their back to the couch, and in so doing may fail to put their shoulders to the wheel." But this should change. Wheelis talks about the desirability of "self-transcendence, a process of change that originates in one's heart and expands outward," beginning with "a vision of freedom...
Another attraction of commodity speculation is that the investor can wheel and deal on a tycoon's scale with relatively little of his own money. Most futures can be purchased on 5% margin, meaning that the speculator can buy a $100,000 future contract by putting up only $5,000 out of his pocket and promising to pay the rest upon delivery. If the price then rises 5%, he can buy another $100,000 of futures with his $5,000 paper profit, and so on and on in a process known as pyramiding. Obviously, pyramids built on such...
Well-dressed and attractive, the woman looked just right behind the wheel of her expensive, well-kept Mercedes-Benz. But when she pulled into the Baltex Garage in Boston the other day, she was as angry as she was chic. "Do you know how much the Mercedes people want to tune this car?" she asked rhetorically. "They want $100 for an ordinary tune-up. Ridiculous! I'll do it myself." She reserved a stall, returned the next day in blue jeans and sweatshirt, and made good her promise-at a cost of only $20. Says Baltex Partner John Price...