Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slow v. Fast. Predictably, the recovery has had widely varying impacts in different parts of the country. New York State and New England, handicapped by high fuel prices, wages and taxes, are emerging most slowly from the recession. California is only beginning to recover, because two of its main industries-aircraft and construction -still have almost empty order books. Aided by a demand for textiles, the Southeast is starting to revive. Atlanta's $2 billion subway building program is providing a boon. The Midwest and Southwest generally are recovering the quickest, thanks largely to their successful mix of highly...
...strength of the American recovery is being anxiously watched by Japanese officials for any sign of slowdown-which Japan does not need. When oil prices went through the roof two years ago, Japan's economy went through the floor. Heavily dependent on once cheap oil to fuel its breakneck postwar expansion, Japan slid into its worst recession in 30 years. Recovery has been slow, and the government's attention has been diverted from important economic matters by the Lockheed bribery scandal (marked last week by the arrest of four businessmen). But now a surge in exports, including sales...
...aviation and into oceanography, and now explores the underwater world in a clear, bubble-shaped plastic submarine of his own design. William Lear, who has invented radios, airplanes and steam-powered vehicles, is now working with a Canadian aircraft company to develop a small, quiet and highly fuel-efficient jet plane...
...three descent engines, separate from its chute and approach the surface at less than 6 m.p.h. So that the landing site will be disturbed as little as possible, each of the braking rockets will fire through a showerhead arrangement of 18 nozzles to diffuse the blast. The rocket fuel is also hydrocarbon-free to avoid confusing Viking's life-seeking instruments. When the first Viking foot pad touches Martian soil, it will trip a sensor that shuts off the engines. Eighteen minutes later controllers will know, by signals sent from the lander, if a successful touchdown has been made...
...measure, which is not expected to reach the Senate floor for debate until after the Democratic National Convention next month, is given little chance of enactment this year. Yet the committee's action adds fuel to what has become a bitterly fought ideological, economic and political issue that is certain to spill over into the presidential campaign. Says Senator Birch Bayh, Democrat of Indiana and the bill's chief sponsor: "If there is one symbol of the Establishment ripping off the people, it is the oil companies." The companies, which have suffered a series of blows in recent...