Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousands of factories, small plants and even schools that depend on a vital energy source: natural gas. Pointing to rising consumption of the clean-burning fuel, as well as dwindling supplies, gas-industry experts had been forecasting severe shortages for several winters, only to have mild weather make it appear that they had been crying wolf. But this season, the early warnings had been sounded as far back as November-and suddenly they proved all too accurate. "The past four or five winters have been comparatively warm," said Carl Suchocki of the Natural Gas Supply Committee, an industry lobby...
...Chou; in the theater, a voice was heard reading the eulogy that Teng had delivered at Chou's funeral. Then, as more than a million black-garbed Chinese surged into T'ien An Men Square, sobbing, singing the Internationale and taking oaths to Chou, posters began to appear demanding that Teng be named Premier. Soon the entire square seemed to be papered with posters-almost always the harbingers of policy changes-carrying an unmistakable message: WE WANT TENG HSIAO-P'ING TO BECOME PREMIER RIGHT AWAY; THERE IS NO NEED TO KEEP 800 MILLION PEOPLE WAITING; WITH...
...M.P.s assemble, they appear to be pillars of rectitude. Their clerk is another matter. Maddie Gotobed (Cecilia Hart) has the body of a Botticelli. She is slow at speed writing but has fast friends in high places. Some are right here in the committee chamber. As Maddie's blue scanties emerge from the M.P.s' briefcases at inauspicious moments and whip through the air like naval pennants, it is clear that whatever the Prime Minister's electoral problems may be, Maddie has carried the House...
...editor asked me, on the basis of my coverage of the CHUL meetings, to write a long feature on the housing issue to appear during the first week of the second semester. After explaining the various alternatives and positions, I made a prediction: that CHUL would vote for a uniform system of three-year Houses, and would make certain adjustments in the sex ratio of the Quad Houses. My editor, older and bureaucratically wiser, advised me last February that committees like CHUL generally find adequate solace in the status quo, and end up voting for it. As it turned...
...chancy business. (Since the virus changes so frequently, flu immunization is also a profitable business for a few drug companies.) Officials at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta were correct in assuming that this year, or next, or the one after a new strain of influenza would appear, but they were wrong in believing they could finally prevent a flu epidemic. The odds of predicting correctly what new strain will appear are small; when it arrives, in other words, the new strain probably will not be swine flu, but something entirely different...