Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then in an instant, everything changed. Over the Belknap's loudspeaker crackled a call given only if the ship is in peril or coming under attack: "Captain to the bridge!" Gangways aboard the Belknap filled with jostling men racing to their stations. Fifteen long seconds passed while the men tensed against the unknown. Then a heavy shock passed through the cruiser, followed by a long, rumbling shudder that felt like an earthquake. Up above, the Kennedy's angled landing deck was smashing through the superstructure of the Belknap like a battering ram. The impact crushed the ship...
Then there was the problem of instant promotion. So many new stars were appearing, so quickly, and with so little justification. Grand Funk had put out six gold albums; David Cassidy and the Osmonds were being greeted by Beatles-sized crowds as they arrived at foreign airports; Elton John behind his $3000 Foster Grants seemed the last straw. In the sixties, the rise of Dylan, or the Beatles, or the Stones was attributable to something--social trends, or taste, or recognition of talent--but in the seventies little explaine the existence of the new stars except pure hype. And what...
...suggested by Marketing Vice President Arthur Cohen exactly two days after he joined the company (from a top executive post at General Foods Corp.), with the mission to promote Bloomingdale's as a brand name for merchandise, rather than just the name of a store, and won instant approval from Traub. "He agreed right away to put the store's reputation on the line on a national basis," reports Cohen. He calculates that the minicatalogue will produce $100,000 to $250,000 in additional sales this Christmas; that will be exceptionally profitable volume, since Bloomingdale's got suppliers...
Most viewers of the Zapruder film are bothered by two questions that it seems to pose: 1) Why does Connally take so long to show signs of pain if, indeed, he had been hit at almost the same instant as Kennedy? 2) Why, if Kennedy was struck from the rear, does his body move sharply back? The commission's experts explain Connally's delayed reaction (at most, 1.5 seconds) as a quite plausible nervous-system occurrence. He also clings to his hat, despite a wrist wound; the experts contend that his muscles tightened...
...record is more vulnerable on that charge: Arab speakers in the U.N. debate ticked off a number of examples of discrimination against Arabs in the occupied territories, including restrictions on travel and harassment by police. Most galling to the Arabs is Israel's Law of Return, which grants instant citizenship to any Jew who immigrates to Israel from anywhere in the world, while Palestinian Arabs who fled their homeland during the 1948 war are still, in most cases, prevented from returning. In answer, Israelis point out that the 470,000 Palestinians who live within Israel...