Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much will depend on whether the rest of the nation follows California in gas-buying habits. For the past three weeks, Golden State drivers have been in a kind of panic, scrambling to buy every last drop available. Lines as long as eight blocks have formed at those gas stations still open; motorists have waited three hours or more to fill up. At some stations, drivers who rose groggily at dawn to hunt for gas have had to queue up behind long lines of cars parked and locked by people who had left them there overnight. Fights with guns, knives...
John Diebold, the noted computer consultant, who was asked by IBM to be a witness, gave the TIME conference "a peasant's view of what it is like to have the Justice Department's B-52s drop napalm on me." First, at Government request, he turned over 300,000 pages of documents from his company, the Diebold Group, relating to the computer industry. Said Diebold: "That is a minor ripple in the ocean of paper that has been delivered by IBM, but I wasn't even a party to the case!" Then he was tied up full...
...Engelhard Foundation's willingness to drop the Engelhard name from the KSG library demonstrates that it is not the name but the thought that counts--the kind of thinking that places like the library make possible is vital to the interests of Harvard's wealthy backers...
...scrapped. ABC's Good Morning, America continues to gain ground on the Today show, which once ate the competition for breakfast. Worse still, two weeks ago, the Nightly News briefly fell into third place in the ratings for the first time ever. The network partly attributed the drop to ABC's rejuvenated news operation. It also admitted that affiliate switches had hurt; in the past two years, NBC has lost ten major local stations to ABC, affecting the ratings for both news and entertainment shows. Nonetheless, there were some hopeful signs: the news budget is up 23% over...
...change in either control factor from (a) to (b), (a) to (c) or (b) to (e) produce only a continuous change in behavior, represented by a gradual rise or fall along the vertical axis. An increase in factor 2 from (c) to (d), however, results in a sudden drop to (a) on the surface below, once the point crossed the edge of the fold at (d). This dramatic plunge is a catastrophe and signifies a discontinuous "jump" in behavior from one stable state to another through an unstable intermediary state, A slight decrease in factor 2 from (e) yields...