Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spotty bad weather that kept drivers home in some parts of the nation is a partial explanation, but the lower death rates seem to be due mostly to the energy crisis, which is making motorists drive more slowly and less frequently. N.S.C. statisticians now express hope that if shortages and higher gasoline prices reduce driving by 10%, and if new speed limits of 50 or 55 m.p.h. are widely obeyed, as many as 14,000 of the 56,000 U.S. deaths caused annually by auto accidents can be avoided...
...crime that Professor Shockley can't even express his views [Dec. 3]. His ideas are ridiculous, but he still has the right to speak. Only if he speaks will the vast majority of people realize that he should go back to physics...
...attention given Bobbie may also remind people that he is articulating what many other prisoners feel but cannot express. They are terrified of the outside world and its demands, and they commit crimes-sometimes violent ones-to be returned to the security of prison. "Bobbie's case is extreme," says Warden Brewer, "but you'll find his story in every prison in the country...
...been to blame for not consulting more with its allies; but the Europeans were also to blame and at times had sought to exclude the U.S. from their decision-making process. "We do believe," he said, "that as an old ally the U.S. should be given an opportunity to express its concerns before final decisions affecting its interests are taken...
...News of the World (circ. 6,000,000), the daily London Sun (circ. 2,600,000) and the Sydney Sunday Telegraph (circ. 622,000) surface next? Why San Antonio, naturally. Later this month Publishing Baron Rupert Murdoch, 42, will complete his $18 million purchase of the San Antonio morning Express (circ. 84,000) and evening News (circ. 63,000), sister dailies owned by Harte-Hanks Newspapers Inc. The choice of locale might seem odd for the ambitious Australian, who has specialized in reviving faltering papers with heavy doses of crime coverage, cheesecake and scandal. But Murdoch relishes competition...