Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While the technical crew scurried about under water, the director and his company waited out the vagaries of tide topside. "With all the planning we did," Spielberg recalls, "nobody thought much about the currents or anything at all about the waves." A strong current would cause equipment boats to drift away. Water color would change, the rhythm of the waves would fluctuate. "I could have shot the movie in the tank," Spielberg says, "or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same...
...last week to get its long-stalled national and global energy programs moving again. While Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was in Paris urging a new conference of oil producers and consumers, President Ford took to national television and ripped into the Democratic-controlled Congress for doing nothing but "drift, dawdle and debate" on domestic energy policy. The President theatrically tore leaves off a calendar to demonstrate that he had been waiting since February for some sort of energy legislation. He then announced that he would go ahead with his own controversial, twice postponed plan to hike energy costs...
Frelimo gets high marks-even from expatriate businessmen-for dedication and organizational ability. But there is fear that the movement will drift away from the African socialism that it now espouses toward authoritarianism...
Griliches is disturbed by the drift among future economics stars away from Harvard and attributes it mainly to the department's reputation for "impersonality and coldness," which was highlighted by an article in The New York Times after Leontief's announcement and by word-passing and gossip in other universities' economics departments...
After almost six years of drift, depression and disaster, prosperity seems to have returned in force to the U.S. stock market. Paced by a swelling optimism that the worst of the recession could well be over, Wall Street's fortunes have turned decidedly upward. Last week, in a bullish performance typical of many since the beginning of the year, the Dow Jones industrial average spurted 29 points to 819, a high for the year, before backing off to 808 on Friday. Still, that was 230 points above the widely watched index's twelve-year low of 578 last...