Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arizona, the base opened in 1946 as a storage place for battle-worn Air Force squadrons; since 1965 it has accommodated surplus Army and Navy aircraft as well. By now the inventory ranges from workhorse World War II C-47s to sleek F-111 fighters, from two-seater orange "bug smashers" on which the Army trained its chopper pilots for Viet Nam to dozens of "Super Jolly Green Giant" helicopters that flew Viet Nam troop-carrying and rescue missions. Some are there because they are not needed now, and others because they will never be needed again...
...Fiat at 17 and designed his first complete car, the Alfa 2000 Sprint, when he was only 21. At 36, the head of his own firm, Ital Design, Giugiaro has more than a score of auto designs in his gallery of achievements, including the new generation of post-bug Volkswagens, Ghia's classic De Tomaso Mangusta, the Fiat 850 Spider and a new South Korean...
Bloated Demand. But once bitten by the growth bug, many banks threw off the old restraints. They now compete vigorously for loan customers and meet the pumped-up demands for loans with money they themselves borrow-from each other, the public and the largely unregulated Eurodollar market. Such go-go lending policies, Mayer believes, bloated business and consumer demand and contributed in no small way to the present inflation rate. Banks also damage the economy, says the author, by going to capital markets to borrow a large proportion of the money they lend. The practice weakens the Federal Reserve Board...
Throughout the fall of 1918 and the first months of the 1919 winter, an unidentified influenza virus killed 21 million people and affected the lives of 1 billion more, or half the world's population at that time. The bug has been credited with being more effective than the Maxim machine gun in blunting Germany's final assault on France in World War I. Practically the entire Royal Navy was kept in port for twelve days nursing more than 10,000 cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew...
...bacillus to produce a virulent man killer. But in 1918, 25 years before the electron microscope made it possible to see viruses at all, there was no way to discourage advances from the Spanish Lady. Paranoia often took the place of ineffective remedies. There were those who thought the bug was the Kaiser's secret weapon, despite the losses his own troops suffered. In Poland, the source of infection was said to be Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. Those whose prejudices were more political called it the Bolshevik disease...