Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some OPEC countries have already made this formula work with their oil. But the U.S. is by far the largest producer of the other most needed resource: food. Clearly, it must use its farm resources both to finance its oil imports and to help feed a hungry world...
...break even for the rest of the year. Its share of the market for U.S.-made cars is down to about 13%, vs. a recent high of 16.2% in 1974. It has been counting on the Omni-Horizon to increase its market share, haul it into the black and help persuade investors and lenders to put up the $7.5 billion that it must spend over the next five years to bring out new cars and modernize its factories. Chrysler says a $150 million preferred-stock and warrant issue, due to go on sale this week, is oversubscribed...
...program for women as elaborate as the two big moneymaking ones, football and basketball. These programs can be immensely expensive. The University of Michigan, for example, spends $800,000 a year on its football team?and grosses $4 million, including $500,000 in gifts from well-wishers. The funds help subsidize the school's other athletic programs. Conversely, if football and basketball were cut down to approximate women's sports in size, the entire system would collapse. The N.C.A.A. warns that Title IX "may well signal the end of intercollegiate athletics as we know them...
...foremost protector of the Bill of Rights, the A.C.L.U. had acquired only 60,000 members by 1960. Its period of large growth came in the late '60s and early '70s, when civil rights and liberties became a popular cause and thousands of young people joined to help support Freedom Riders in the South and Viet Nam draft resisters. Says Neier: "We rode the crest of public concern." Now Neier and others feel that "the country is less concerned with individual rights. There is no dominant political issue, no sexy come-on. We're back to bedrock free...
Doctors play a guessing game about which drugs to use in combatting cancer. One problem is human individuality-what helps one person may fail to help another. In the search for the proper medicine, doctors must often subject a patient to a sequence of powerful drugs, many of which turn out to be ineffective against the malignant cells. Now a simple technique promises a means of testing the effectiveness of drugs in a specific case of cancer-without having to administer them to the patient...