Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wellesley, 3-4, last Saturday, but coach Lincoln is pleased that her third-year squad has shown tremendous improvement over last season. "We were competitive with Yale this year." Lincoln said of Saturday's meet, in which several of the racquetwomen took their powerful Eli opponents to the wire before losing. "Last year it was literally no contest...
...plots against virtue and propriety that are self-satirical as well as self-defeating in their loony complexity. As a result, Chabrol's tragedies and near-tragedies almost always teeter on the edge of farce. In his best work, there is something of the fascination of a high-wire...
...would be nice, of course, if the recession were simply a figment of pessimists in remote broadcast studios and wire rooms, but for millions of Americans it is all too real. And those who still live in relatively prospering communities are unlikely to take the advice of the ads and tune out. There is doubtless a certain guilty gratification in tuning in every night just to see how well off they...
Electricity bills have been inflating not only because of higher oil prices but also because the cost of about everything that utilities use, from transmission wire to turbines, has increased alarmingly. So have the interest rates that they must pay for the vast amounts of capital they need. To help the utilities with their financing difficulties, regulatory commissions in many states last year began allowing increases in fuel costs to be passed on directly to customers...
...American World Airways purchasing agent knew a good deal when he saw it. Offered some generous cash incentives for steering a few Pan Am orders to a Miami-based electronics supplier, he grabbed. Then his bosses became suspicious, arranged a legal wire tap and recorded him in the act of negotiating kickbacks. That is when the second good deal came along for the agent-a union-contract clause stipulating that an employee fired for cause must be notified within 30 days of committing the offense. Pan Am did not want to confront the employee until it had prepared an airtight...