Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much illumination. There are many ways to pare energy use, but most of them would have to be enforced by law-or at least a strong national publicity campaign-to make them effective. For example, consumers can use regular refrigerators, which require 40% less power than those that are frost-free, and black-and-white television sets, which need nearly 30% less voltage than color sets...
Cosell speaks harshly about such sports and non-sports figures as Casey Stengel ("rude, crude and uncultured"), Dick Cavett ("takes himself too seriously"), and David Frost ("totally absorbed with himself"). But his strongest attacks are on sportswriters. In language similar to Richard Nixon's, he writes, "I am not interested in petty feuds with some writers. Let them do their thing, and some have done it to me pretty well...
...summers are short here, and the fall begins early. Thousands of acres of blueberries are being harvested in the fields, and Washington county, the world's largest blueberry producer, must complete the task before the first frost hits some cold night in September...
Petroleum is a fuel for all seasons-but the U.S. does not have enough of it for any season. That fact was brought home to Americans last week in jolting fashion. Before the frost was on the pumpkin, federal officials had begun warning of icicles in the bedroom next winter because of a general energy shortage...
Last week Judge A. Sherman Christensen chose a path that for both sides may well, as Frost once said, have "made all the difference." In a decision that reverberated throughout the computer industry, stock market and financial community, he found that IBM had engaged in "sophisticated, refined, highly organized and methodically processed" efforts to force Telex out of the peripherals market. For damages, he awarded the struggling firm the largest antitrust judgment ever rendered in the U.S.-$352.5 million. Moreover, Christensen ordered IBM to revise drastically some of its business policies in ways that are designed to allow other computer...