Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evening News, pointing out some of the military's worst excesses. Roth decorated a Christmas tree with $100 in odds and ends, for which the Pentagon--with its "cost-plus" method of insuring that all contractors make huge profits--would have paid as much as $100,000. A small wrench that Roth bought for 12 cents had been purchased by the Pentagon...
...engineer, a soft-looking fellow named Jim, came from New Jersey, one of an elite 25 in the "field force." He had charge of all New England-Willy Loman with a wrench. He was here, in Bethel, to see about a problem at the Chevy dealership. He accepted a white wine...
...while May has not scored a clean-cut victory for herself or for the other "little men" and, especially, little women, she has at least thrown a wrench into the workings of the Quayle machine; wrought a bit of anarchy worthy of Sonya's designs. Perhaps that is the best she could hope to do. In May Alto's world--one in which decency, even mere intelligence mark the losers and people like Quayle win the laurels--anarchy becomes a reasonable response. We cannot know whether a real alternative exists; whether Alto actually ever might have succeeded...
Rich Hassman, a computer-systems manager in the waste-management group, is taking apart some Unistrut metal framing with a socket wrench. "Right now," he says, "I'm thinking of using this as a base for a water bed. I like to make things. A friend of mine is building a 35-ft. steel ketch, and he turned me on to metal welding. So I got a Heliarc." A steel ketch? In New Mexico...
...such items is hardly a surprise. Yet if Deng Xiaoping is to succeed in his Four Modernizations, he may have to suppress consumerism. The task of industrial progress will require that China's limited exchange be spent wisely. Rubik's Cubes, and similar products, may be the wrench in the cogs of China's revitalization...