Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five flights out of Kansas City for lack of fuel. The auto industry stands to benefit because rising gasoline prices are likely to move shoppers to buy fuel-efficient cars. That will help automakers meet strict federally mandated "fleet average" mileage standards for vehicle sales. On the other hand, fast-food chains, restaurants and hotels will suffer if Americans drive less overall and gasoline stations are closed on weekends to conserve fuel...
...Fast deals, broken contracts and big profits
...flood, once when an overpowered engine jumped the track. Script and casting problems were just as bad. One script ripped off Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train; another leaned very hard on The Prisoner of Zenda. In addition, most of Curtis' first-choice performers were unavailable so fast. Something eventually came of all the effort, but it scarcely seemed worth the money. Reviews were awful; ratings were as bad. In its last outing, Supertrain received only 19% of the audience...
Like CBS, NBC is giving more money to the Hollywood TV factories, and, as it prepares next fall's schedule, it has 55 pilots to choose from. Instead of being overjoyed at all the work, however, producers are complaining that both CBS and NBC want too much too fast. "Everybody is being drained, and there is a waste of talent," says Ed Montanus, president of MGM television (How the West Was Won, CHiPs). "Some of the really good writers and producers are becoming disillusioned and moving out. We're working in a Barnum & Bailey atmosphere...
...great American experiment is fast approaching its second childhood. If tutorials are ever to regain their value as a pedagogical tool, faculty must collectively commit themselves to the business of educating undergraduates...