Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduate business school. Now, at 47, rangy Dave McLaughlin invests a quarter of his time as chairman of his college's board of trustees and the rest as chief executive of Minneapolis' Toro Co., which makes lawnmowers, snowthrowers - and a ton of money. A blizzard winter helped Toro's profits double last year. If a witch doctor could make the snow fall, he would be on McLaughlin's payroll...
...President got off to a promising start. In a blizzard of speeches and briefings early last week, he described plans to spend a breathtaking $141 billion over the next decade ("one of the biggest figures you ever heard ... the unparalleled peacetime commitment"). The aim is to cut U.S. oil imports in half, and thus prevent the nation's economy from remaining in bondage to the price and production whims of OPEC. For about 40 hours, beginning with his TV talk Sunday night, Carter was winning popular and political support for this economic moon shot. On Monday, in tub-thumping...
...Clemenson in "The Great Train Robbery." His face bulging and mind oozing, the inspector explicated the crime. "When you speak of train robbery, I want to emphasize that this involved no loss of train, merely its contents. We haven't lost one since the blizzard of 1946, when we misplaced a small one." Well, then, who could have perpetrated the crime? Clemenson leans forward ominously, wrinkles his brow, and emits his conclusive response. "We believe this to be the work of thieves." Oh, so thieves are responsible? "Oh, good heavens, no! I believe the thieves are irresponsible...
Judge Warren agreed with the Government's contention-outlined in a blizzard of affidavits from atomic experts and Cabinet Secretaries Cyrus Vance (State), Harold Brown (Defense) and James Schlesinger (Energy)-that the article would irreparably damage the security interests of the U.S. While conceding the story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers...
...pressure from women. Legislatures won't do the job on their own," says Bet ty Gittes, attorney and member of the Massachusetts commission to revise state laws. "The ERA is not a self-executing law, it's a constant fight." ERA states have not, however, experienced the blizzard of law suits that some ERA opponents feared...