Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent over water. What all that means, contend NASA'S statisticians, is that the chance of any remnant striking a human being is only 1 in 152; the probability of any specific person being struck is 1 in 600 billion?far less than the chance of being hit by a bolt of lightning or winning a lottery...
There were many variations on the theme. New Hampshire Attorney John Ahlgren advertised "free legal services for people hit by falling pieces of Skylab" outside his Portsmouth office. But he saw a serious side to the event too. "People feel at the mercy of forces they cannot control," he explained. "Concern is mild, but it's there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government...
Meanwhile, the powerful highway lobby- composed of the automakers oil companies, construction firms, Teamsters and building unions-exertred its enormous muscle to persuade Government to build more and more roads- until the nation became almost totally dependent on the auto and truck. Until the gas crisis began to hit home three months ago, 90% of all U.S. travel was done in private autos and 75% of all goods were carried in trucks...
NASA officials predict that the chances of Skylab hitting one specific individual is one in 600 billion. To hit someone, somewhere, the odds...
...that you leave your intellect at home in a glass jar next to your T.V. set. But Roger Moore as James Bond in Moonraker finally clicks thanks to the film's luxurious backdrops, reasonably intelligent dialogue, cutesy references to other contemporary films, beautiful members of both sexes, and a hit man who'll bite on anything--in short, the old formula. And, to top it off, 007 really does DO IT in space...