Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through color photos of half-acre patches that pock the hillsides. "It's all over the place." To escape detection, many weed farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed to the modern-day bootleggers. Sighs former State Senator Lynn Newbry: "I suppose it's a similar situation to when alcohol was prohibited. You just can't get all the stills...
...Chevy Chase, actor and television personality, when asked by David Frost what he would put in a time capsule: "The King Tut exhibit. That would confuse people in the future...
...order to promote more investment that would help everybody, Steiger and his allies argue, taxes must be cut for the people who have money to put to work. Michael K. Evans, president of Chase Econometrics, figures that if Steiger's amendment passes, stock prices would jump 40% in two years. One reason: investors would pull money out of bank savings, municipal bonds and mattresses to pursue capital gains in the stock market. As prices rose, Evans continues, companies would be able to finance a huge expansion of plant and equipment spending by selling new stock. The payoff: a speedup...
...astronauts, NASA is headed by a devilish schemer (Hal Holbrook) who decides to fake the Mars landing in a TV studio rather than risk failure and a cutoff of appropriations. Predictably, the mad scientist's plans go wrong, wrong, wrong. Capricorn One turns into a vivid chase involving NASA henchmen, an investigative reporter (Elliott Gould), a crop-dusting pilot (Telly Savalas) and a couple of bloodsucking desert reptiles...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said yesterday the Fund's success this year is especially noteworthy considering that for most of this year the stock market "was just terrible...