Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...autobiography, My Life, selling at a brushfire pace in 17 languages, Golda at 77 may soon find herself a millionairess. She has already received a $450,000 advance from her British publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and royalties and film rights could more than double that figure. However, the loot is fast becoming an embarrassment to Golda, who has long shunned any trappings of wealth. She has planned a small addition onto her modest 2½-room cottage outside Tel Aviv, says the secretary, "but other than that she has not decided what to do with the cash. I think she simply...
...move quickly when it has to and will waste no time getting something like a proven anticancer drug or a more effective new antibiotic introduced in the U.S. But until such a product comes along, he will enforce his agency's standards, designed to be safe rather than fast...
...drop in the world price is not likely; on the contrary, OPEC will probably raise prices another 12% this week at a meeting in Vienna. But Britain is taking steps to secure all the supplies it can, fast. Earlier this year, the government said it would set up the British National Oil Corp. to compete with private companies in exploration, production and refining. Presumably, it will move into marginal fields now avoided as uneconomic by private companies. Currently, anything smaller than 100,000-bbl.-per-day production capacity is regarded by most companies as not worth their commercial effort...
...anti-Bicentennial ad. Beneath a photo of the familiar fife-and-drum trio marching off into the mist with backs turned to the camera, the ad asserts: "Soon 1976 will be gone, along with the bicentennial. All the hooplas will be over. And all the guys who made a fast buck in Early American furniture will be looking for something new. And so it goes. Except that there will still be one company...
...Washington last week, General Motors unveiled the U.S. auto industry's newest challenge to fast-selling imports. GM's new minicar: the Chevette, a stripped-down, two-door hatchback driven by a four-cylinder engine and sticker-priced at $2,899 (a model with a back seat costs $3,098). According to GM, soon-to-be-released Environmental Protection Agency figures will show that the Chevette gets 28 to 30 miles per gallon in city driving and 39 to 40 m.p.g. on the highway...