Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago, Washington's Ambassador to the U.N. infuriated Swedes by calling them "terrible racists." He later explained, a bit lamely, that his comment was just a general observation about the presence of racism everywhere. This summer, however, Sweden has been hit by a small but ugly wave of racial incidents, which suggests that America's most celebrated un-diplomat may have been nearer to the mark than Sweden's defenders had thought. In June a rat pack of young Swedish ruffians clashed with a group of Assyrian immigrants from the Middle East in Södert...
...most of the U.S. sweltered last week under the hottest weather since the Dust Bowl days of the mid '30s, the makers and marketers of air conditioners were hoping that the baking temperatures would bake a bit longer. With thermometer readings edging up into triple figures in many parts of the nation, heat-weary Americans rushed in the largest numbers in years to buy air conditioners. In New York and Chicago, sales mounted to double the June rate. On one sizzling day in St. Louis, a Carrier dealer sold out an entire shipment of 300 units before noon...
Rapid Rate. The first-half surge is a bit of beginners' luck for the Carter Administration, which took over at the ragged end of a painful business slowdown and, without having made any radical changes in the Ford Administration's policy, now finds itself at the helm of a briskly moving economy. Few experts expect the first half s rapid rate of growth to continue through the second half-though nobody is forecasting anything like a recession. Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser, forecasts a steady if unspectacular 5% rate of expansion for the rest...
...good year will provide at least a bit of breathing space for the manufacturers, who soon will be hit by costly new federal energy-saving regulations. A Federal Energy Administration study shows that air conditioners account for 7% of the electricity used in the U.S. The FEA estimates that air conditioning uses up the equivalent of 1 million bbl. per day of oil, or 2.5% of the U.S.'s daily energy consumption. More than 70% of all new homes built in the U.S. now have central air conditioning, and 53% of all older homes have at least one room...
...anyone with plain old 20-20 can see, anyway-is many laughs. Director Donner. convinced that it was campiness that brought down King Kong, is avoiding even the possibility of untoward giggles. Says he: "I was brought up on Superman, and I believe this myth. There is a little bit of God Bless America in it. There is a purity and a fantasy in it that is right for our times." Adds Mankiewicz: "Whatever Jimmy Carter is asking us to be, Superman is already. What we are really giving people is the Christian message: that we should all be honest...