Word: crashing
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...burgeoning nation. Governments have not only missed the handwriting on the wall; they have scarcely been able to detect the wall. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall recently put the dilemma in concrete terms: "Treasury Secretary George Shultz asserted that we would have to crank up a 'crash plan' to develop our own resources to 'cool the swagger of the Arab nations.' Yet it is we who are the swaggerers-and the energy pigs as well. We are consuming nearly one-third of the world's petroleum even though we have only a dwindling...
...Crash Prizes. Such adventures have turned into bad trips, too, causing six or seven deaths over the past two years and many broken bones and teeth. This does not worry boosters of the sport; indeed, prizes are sometimes given for the most interesting crashes. Sales of more than 30 manufacturers are booming, partially because the craft are not regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration. Hang-gliding is also cheap. Depending on do-it-yourself inclinations, the glider can be in the air for as little as $50 or as much as $800. Says Bill Allen of Eipper-formance, a California...
...executed with vigorous economy; no flash, just straight, brutal action. There is also a spectacular and funny showdown at the end between a hired killer (Joe Don Baker) driving a car and Charley behind the controls of a crop duster. As the car and the plane bump, sideswipe and crash into one another, the scene becomes almost a parody of the recent excesses of the chase that were encouraged by The French Connection...
...when Dartmouth and its disgusting traveling freak show of greenjacketed, hyena-mouth fans invades Cambridge to sleep on our floors, crash our parties, vomit on our rugs, and laugh all that way back to Hanover after flushing yet another Harvard football team down the nearest John, I feel like getting sick, which if you've suffered through enough Dartmouth debacles like I have, you've done more than once...
...word, the story of the 1960s on Wall Street has the faraway quality of tales from 1929. As New Yorker Writer John Brooks points out, the speculative excesses of the decade bore a haunting resemblance to those of the '20s, and they, too, led to a resounding market crash (in 1970) that wiped out fortunes and nearly destroyed Wall Street itself by threatening to bankrupt its biggest brokerage houses...