Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only yesterday we were up to our erogenous zones in joy and on our way to that ultimate sensuous bestseller, the Japanese vibrator cookbook. Yet a look at the current bestseller list makes clear that the overwhelming new theme in nonfiction is survival. The variations include plane-crash survivors in the Andes, the avoidance of heart attacks, how to drive the moths of "stagflation" from your wallet and preserve your business through better management, not to mention ways and means of hanging on to your marbles by being your own best friend. In addition, there are big books about three...
Colson is also telling investigators that he and the President discussed clemency for Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt shortly after Hunt's wife Dorothy died in an airplane crash in December 1972. Whether Colson contends that Nixon approved such clemency could not be learned. Nixon has denied giving any such approval but is quoted in his tape transcripts as admitting to "somebody" that "commutation should be considered on the basis of his [Hunt's] wife's death." There is no practical difference between commutation of sentence and Executive clemency...
...more than 700 plants in 30 states. They include facilities of such well-known companies as Hart Schaffner & Marx, Phillips-Van Heusen and Kayser-Roth. Many strikers were so unprepared for the transformation of their union from mouse to lion that some locals felt compelled to conduct informal crash courses to brief them on strike duties, and full-dress picketing was delayed for a day at some plants because union leaders had forgotten to have placards printed...
...down to its lowest level since World War II at least. In this year's first quarter, corporations had only 17c in cash for each $1 of current debt, a drop of 3? from the end of 1972. As yet, no bankruptcies as spectacular as the 1970 crash of the Penn Central are in sight; but if the squeeze continues, even big companies could have trouble paying their bills...
...life for $1.7 million. Or his teammates on the Oakland Athletics, who are depending on his play this year for a shot at their third consecutive World Championship. But practical concerns were the last thing on Reggie Jackson's mind. Wearing a cotton tennis hat instead of a crash helmet, the A's slugger tore round the Oakland suburb of San Leandro on a motorcycle. As he bolted past a group of astonished friends, Jackson shouted, "I love it!" Then he disappeared back into the traffic. When he finally skidded to a stop, Jackson affectionately patted the borrowed...