Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chase study, about $2.8 billion, or some 10%, was spent on nonenergy projects. The remainder, or nearly $27 billion, was plowed back into the energy business. About 63% of those funds, or some $17 billion, was devoted to oil exploration and the development of new wells; a bit more than half of that $17 billion was invested...
When the new season got under way last week, the temperature trembled at a subfreezing 31° in Pittsburgh, and Parker was every bit as cold. While umpires picketed outside Three Rivers Stadium and other major league parks in pursuit of a pay raise, baseball's best-paid player struck out twice, had no hits in four at-bats and made a fielding error in a 3-2 Pirate loss. Still, Tanner was not about to eat his words. Parker himself was calmly philosophical. "There's 161 games to go," said he. "I think I can improve...
...years after blacks at Cornell captured national attention by brandishing rifles following their occupation of Willard Straight Hall, the sense of racial isolation continues. Today, though, the activism of Dartmouth blacks seems a bit anachronistic. TIME reporters who recently visited a score of the nation's colleges found that campus militancy and the idea of black separatism have passed with the "Stokely generation" of committed activism. Black students, like their white counterparts, say the social issue of the moment is not making the world better, but simply making it. Observes Vivica Rosser, a University of Georgia junior: "Unless something...
...largest corporate advertisers give up one or two of their regular programs each year, turning the time over to networks to present serious public affairs programs on their own. They would be saying, as Murrow put it: "This is a tiny tithe, just a little bit of our profits . . . to indicate our belief in the importance of ideas." Murrow saw trouble "unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us." Murrow that night was concerned, gloomy, a little shrill. He said he wasn...
...little bit worried at 700 meters," seven oar Anne Benton said yesterday. She had good reason for anxiety...