Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic production," Carter said the U.S. will become perilously dependent on increasingly costly imported oil. "We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs," and we would "constantly live in fear of embargoes." There would be pressure "to plunder the environment" in a crash program to expand nuclear plants, strip mining and the drilling of offshore wells. Regions within the U.S. would compete with each other for supplies. "Inflation will soar, production will go down, people will lose their jobs...
...senior positions can be hard to fill. Example: Commissioner Kennedy, a biologist, took over last month, a full three months after the resignation of his predecessor, Dr. Alexander Schmidt. In addition, Schmidt had given five months' notice of his intent to leave. Acknowledges Kennedy, who has developed a crash-course understanding of the FDA's problems: "I am learning that the agency does little that is not controversial...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...
...Hereford Street. Chris Bergonzi of Adams House and Armonk, N.Y. "had a horrendous time" when he ran in the Silver Lake race. Injured Harvard baseball player Steve Shevick of Evanston, Ill. has no previous racing experience but spent the last four weeks averaging ten miles a day in a crash training program. Despite his nonchalant planning, Shevick is looking forward to a 3:15-to-3:30 race, "if I finish...