Word: built
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Without a preliminary injunction, construction will continue during the trial," Sullivan said. "There is no chance a judge two years down the road when the subway is three-quarters built is going to say 'Hey you were right' and order construction stopped," he said...
...enough to blame the Government, the public's "me first" spirit is fouling up matters too. Truckers are now demanding unrestricted access to diesel fuel, while farmers get all they want. Simultaneously, other consumers clamor for exemptions for any gas-rationing system or demand that heating-oil stocks be built up to guard against a cold winter. There is no way that refineries can give farmers and truckers unlimited supplies, turn out maximum supplies of gasoline and build heating-oil inventories?and the Government has failed to set clear priorities...
...higher, solar tax credits. New homes built with passive solar systems will get a 20% credit. Multifamily and commercial buildings will get a credit of $20 for every million B.T.U.s saved per year above the Government's energy performance standard...
...precisely 3:20 p.m. one day last week, a Swissair DC-10 with 125 passengers aboard lifted off from Zurich's Kloten airport for a flight that ended, uneventfully, 4% hours later in Tel Aviv. Almost simultaneously, many more of the U.S.-built, tri-engine wide-bodies were taxiing to runways all over Europe. By week's end 13 European lines, including such prestigious carriers as Lufthansa, SAS, Alitalia and KLM, had put their 58 DC-10s back into the air. Though their decision brought cheers from the plane's beleaguered manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas...
...needs, an amount small enough to come from stockpiles in friendly Liberia, India and Brazil. Synthetic rubber was being produced ahead of schedule at an annual rate of 836,000 tons, more than 25% above the peak prewar imports of rubber. By war's end the Government had built and owned 51 synthetic-rubber plants at a cost of $700 million. These plants were later sold to private industry, and synthetic products now account for over 75% of U.S. rubber consumption...