Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential limousine drove down Bardstown's main street, it was engulfed by people stretching out their hands and shouting, "Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!" Carter impulsively climbed onto the car's roof. As the auto moved slowly ahead, the President sprawled on its top, his legs dangling awkwardly over the windshield, a nervous Secret Service agent reaching up to grab his arm and keep him from falling. Through it all, Carter grinned delightedly. From his perilous perch, he reached out to the people. At least from his viewpoint, Carter's post-Camp David drive to get back in touch...
...Senate minority leader has a remarkable record on the issues. He is responsible, often original and almost always ahead. He dived in to help the President win the Panama Canal Treaty and the arms package for Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Down at the G.O.P.'s Tidewater Conference he seized the moment and focused on SALT as an occasion for a broad re-examination of the "total military and foreign policy relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S." It was, in Baker's eyes, time to dispel the tattered remnants of Arthur Vandenberg's bipartisan tradition...
...TIME Board of Economists: "Most of the second-quarter drop can be traced to the disruption of auto and truck sales and the scarcity of gasoline that kept many shoppers out of the stores. Yet there is no reason to look for an especially deep recession in the year ahead." Less optimistic is Robert Nathan, another member of the TIME board. He foresees a slump that could last six quarters and a jobless rate that could hit close...
...ever to produce cars in the U.S., Volkswagen has been winning back part of the ground it lost in the mid-1970s to the Japanese trio of Toyota, Datsun and Honda. While Volkswagen's sales rose 13% worldwide dur ing this year's first half, they spurted ahead 41% in the U.S., where the company is now the fourth largest seller of foreign cars, with 3.4% of the market. Volkswagen's goal is a 5% share, and it could easily sell more cars now if it had them...
...sidewalk intrusions of skateboarders, cyclists and joggers, they had to make room for another mobile urban menace: roller skaters. The U.S. now has an estimated 28 million of them, and a Gallup poll has found their passion to be the fifth most popular participation sport among teenagers, ahead of tennis and skiing...