Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fort Scott, Kans., man fights off hissing rattlesnakes on his farm to recover a small piece. A tourist from Camdenton, Mo., wanders through a live minefield in Israel intently snipping specimens. All of these "barbarians," as they call themselves, are hooked on one of the more unlikely but fast-growing hobbies in the U.S.: barbed-wire collecting...
Much of the Chronicle's raw information reaches Chalidze's Manhattan apartment in envelopes without return addresses mailed from the U.S.S.R. Fast-breaking news sometimes gets through by long-distance telephone. Last week Litvinov succeeded in reaching Anatoly Marchenko's wife Larissa on the phone after Soviet operators had earlier cut them off in mid-conversation. "Larissa told me that Tolya [short for Anatoly] was brought before the judge in heavy handcuffs," Litvinov reports. "He looked weak and sick, almost fainted twice during the sentencing. He has been on a hunger strike for 35 days, and will...
...world petroleum prices, the cost of imports was exceeding exports by $5.5 billion annually, inflation was running at 24.5%, and only emergency loans from the International Monetary Fund and the German government saved the nation from outright bankruptcy. Today demand is slackening and Italian inflation is fast diminishing: wholesale prices in February rose a mere 0.2%, v. 6.8% in the same month last year. But the price of whipping inflation has been high. Industrial production in January was down 15% from the year before-the biggest monthly drop in decades-and the government reports that more than 1.2 million Italians...
...corner of Wall Street, the bond market is usually a place where corporations can count on raising enormous sums of money -$12 billion in just the first three months of this year-with little fuss. But recently the market has been anything but placid. Prices have been dropping so fast, interest rates rising so rapidly and bonds going unsold in such numbers that some veteran traders say that the market is "in disarray...
...materials shortages, environmental wrangles, safety worries. More recently, capital shortages have produced construction stretch-outs, even plant cancellations. As of now, there are 53 active nuclear plants, v. six a decade ago; construction permits have been granted for 63 more plants. Clearly in trouble, though, is the liquid-metal, fast-breeder reactor, which has swallowed the major share of federal energy R. and D. dollars in recent years. Opposition has grown to the breeder and the plutonium it turns out; no accepted way has been found to dispose of the excess radioactive waste...