Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pollsters did not ask why Californians are becoming tougher on this issue. Some researchers speculate that people are getting fed up with such spectacular crimes as skyjacking and Manson-style mass murder. On a more personal level, more and more people are becoming the victims of street muggings and assaults. Although Californians do not demand the death penalty for these offenses, such violent criminal episodes perhaps promote a psychology of implacability and, at least in theory, a taste for social vengeance...
...members, concerned about the dangers of greater inflation, will probably continue to hold to a moderate policy of feeding out just enough money to meet the needs of the economy. The biggest beneficiaries are the commercial banks, which have been borrowing heavily from the Federal Reserve. They pay the Fed's discount fee of only 41% to borrow money but charge far higher rates to their customers. So far, the Fed has held back from lifting its discount rate, partly because it does not want to jeopardize the economy by giving the slightest impression that it is adopting...
...neon laser beam instead of a needle. And instead of grooves, Philips' shiny aluminum disks have millions of microscopic "pits" that produce variations in the intensity of the laser beam's reflection as the disk spins. A photodetector translates the reflection into electrical impulses, which are then fed to the TV screen. The color is truer than that of any image transmitted over the air from a TV station. The disk could also carry stereo sound along with the picture...
...Fed Up. Once the basic research had been done, Irving and Suskind simply sat down at a tape recorder, interviewed each other, and began spinning tales. They invented scandalous stories of how Hughes seduced his father's mistress while his father was watching, how Hughes once rescued a kleptomaniac aircraft executive from imprisonment for a theft of Oreo cookies, and how Hughes reluctantly went swimming in the nude with-of course-Ernest Hemingway. The imaginary Hughes had originally barged in on Hemingway in Sun Valley, introduced himself as a bush pilot and taken the novelist "for a spin...
Lorin Hawes started out as a U.S. nuclear physicist, but in 1956 he emigrated to Australia because, he says, "I was fed up with warmongering, hillbilly officers, the CIA, the Pentagon, the whole damn lot." He lectured in Australian universities, but by 1965 found Australian society also becoming too militaristic for his liking. He then turned for his living to what had become his hobby: making and throwing boomerangs. Says the 39-year-old Hawes, a sardonic, 280-lb. mountain of a man: "I decided to join the select group of people who work less and earn more by being...