Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economically, the regime's top priority was the resumption of Iran's oil exports, which have been shut off for two months. Although this has posed problems for the industrial countries that consume Iranian oil, for Iran itself the shutdown has been an economic disaster. Conceding that the...
Hal Lindsey's book The Late Great Planet Earth sold more than 10 million copies. The semidocumentary movie made from it, with Narrator Orson Welles rumbling warnings that the world may be coming to an end, is currently among the top ten moneymakers out of Hollywood. Why the success...
For Hollywood too, calamity pays. From Earthquake to The Towering Inferno and The Last Wave disaster flicks have been the most profitable genre of the 1970s. Nor is the deluge tapering off. Coming attractions include: Meteor and The Day the World Ended (by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves).
Midway through the second period the networks cut the disaster off the air. No one ever did learn the final score. Congress scheduled hearings on the affair. Kissinger mournfully intoned that once again the Carter Administration had not understood the use of power: we should never have given the Soviets...
Cornell led, 8-1 after one period, and perhaps Bill Cleary's overmatched squad should have quietly skated off the ice right then and taken the next DC-7 to Logan Airport. For four and a half minutes, the Crimson held gamely to a scoreless tie, but then the humiliation...