Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still insists that it committed no fraud: if a buyer expected a 350-cu. in, 170-horsepower engine, he got exactly that. In some cases, however, consumers have complained that their dealers could not replace oil filters or fan belts because the Chevy engines have slightly different specifications from Olds engines (GM says it told the dealers about the switches, though the dealers may not have paid attention or informed the buyers). The Chevy engines also delivered one or two fewer miles per gallon than Olds engines...
...then, of course, energy must be conserved for agriculture. The great car factories make trucks and farm machinery almost exclusively. We can huddle together when there is a lack of warmth, fan ourselves should there be no cooling breezes, sleep or make love at such times as there is a lack of light-but nothing will for long ameliorate a lack of food. The American population isn't going up much any more, but the food supply must be kept high even though the prices and difficulty of distribution force each American to eat less. Food is needed...
Although the scientists left Asilomar thinking that they had allayed public fear about their work, they had only managed to fan it. Newspapers, which had until then paid scant attention to the story of recombinant DNA, erupted with scare headlines, alarming the nation with exaggerated doomsday prophecies. Two months later, Ted Kennedy held his first hearings on the new genetics. Some scientists, joined by politicians, began questioning whether the molecular biologists should do their own policing. Said one: "This is probably the first time in history that the incendiaries formed their own fire brigade...
...with a workable if not ideal solution: turn your shortcomings into assets. To date, Allen has made a half a dozen films in which short, hebbishy guys come out on top. By far the best of these is Play It Again, Sam, the tale of a romantically unsuccessful Bogart fan. In Bogart Allen has found the perfect role model for the short uglies of the world; after all, for Bogie--and life--dames are simple. This is the only one of Allen's films that he does not direct himself, and what is lost in manic humor is gained...
Look for the breakthrough to come in basketball. With millions of fans killing each other for high-priced NBA tickets, the day will come when thousands of fans will begin to turn to more readily available admissions to games in a new professional women's league, and the media will respond to this fan action. That will be the "shot heard round the world" in the revolution over women's athletics...