Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Auto insurance is high, say the insurers, partly because manufacturers design cars that can crumple easily in minor accidents. Allstate Insurance Co. last spring offered a 20% discount on collision coverage for any car that could withstand a 5 m.p.h. crash without front-or rear-end damage. So far there have been no takers. Criticizing Detroit's 1971 models, Allstate Chairman Judson Branch complains: "Look at the bumpers! Still tucked against the sheet metal: a perfect battering ram and shock transmitter. Another model year down the drain as far as sturdier cars...
...diseases have merely failed to withstand the test of time. The "vapors," a vague complaint that affected women in the 18th century, survives only as a literary allusion. "Swooning," with which Victorian ladies reacted to emotional stress, has simply passed out of style...
...planes have been strengthened on the inside to withstand grenade explosions. The cockpit is kept locked at all times, and the pilot and copilot can observe the passengers on closed-circuit television. Lavatories are inspected for time bombs each time a passenger has used them, and some planes are equipped to pump tear gas through the ventilation system to incapacitate hijackers -and passengers as well. In such an event, the crew would put on gas masks...
Foreign automen insist that they will withstand the challenge. G.M. and Ford each hope to sell 400,000 of their minicars during the new model year. Volkswagen predicts that its sales will rise by 12% to 600,000, and Japan's Toyota and Datsun expect to sell a combined total of 250,000 cars to U.S. customers. Unless the market for subcompacts expands faster than most analysts anticipate, somebody is likely to be disappointed...
Salomon Bros.' individual traders, like Perry, have been known to commit as much as $150 million on a single Government bond deal, and it takes a certain kind of stomach and nervous system to withstand the pressure. According to Billy Salomon, the best traders are intuitive oddsmakers and could be just as proficient at gambling if that were their calling. Many of them, including Salomon and twelve other general partners, never went to college...