Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oilmen are hardly pleased. Along with Chrysler President John Riccardo, they have long advocated postponing federal deadlines until the automakers could come up with a modified engine that would meet clean-air requirements without the catalytic converter-or unleaded gas. Congress, however, saw fit to ignore that argument last week. The result, oilmen warn, will be increases in crude oil consumption because producing lead-free gasoline actually uses more oil than making gasoline with lead additives...
...watching the assembly of a giant national mosaic. Many of the parts we can discern, and we can see how they fit together. Many other events and personalities are still only vaguely defined, and the pattern of the past suggests that there is much to come which we cannot even imagine...
...fuel a year just by replacing 747s with DC-10s on its Honolulu runs. Many of the cabin luxuries and ticketing options that passengers have taken for granted will disappear. First class may give way to all-economy seating, and tourist accommodations may become more crowded as cabins are fit ted with extra seats. Last-minute reservations and changes of flight plans will become far more difficult to arrange as more flights depart with every seat filled. Nonstop service may turn to one-stop and two-stop, even on long flights between major cities. Youth fares, family fares and other...
...Kleppe, head of the Small Business Administration, does not fit the cautious mold of the Washington bureaucrat. A self-made North Dakota business success (Glass Wax), he keeps a pair of six guns mounted on an office wall, wears electric blue shirts with dazzling horseshoe cufflinks, speaks bluntly −and is now taking some perhaps inevitable lumps. Kleppe's most recent troubles began when he went to Congress to ask for an expansion of SB A lending authority from $4.3 billion to $6.6 billion. He ran into a barrage of allegations that suggested an embarrassing range of SBA malfeasance...
...showdown came senior year. A budding radical, I now defied the school authorities and wore blue jeans to school. I skipped classes, hoping my National Merit status would provide immunity from disciplinary action. Then in a fit of hubris, I got mononucleosis and was out of school for three weeks. Miss Davis approved neither of my absence nor the disease. I knew the Lares and Penates were against me: Sure enough, when time came for grades, retribution rained down upon my head. I was mortified...