Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that rising mountain of debt is casting an ominous shadow across the international banking scene. A growing number of monetary experts, bank regulators and economists are concerned about the ability of some less developed countries (LDCS) to pay off. They worry that a series of defaults could severely jolt the banking systems of the U.S. and other major lending countries-and perhaps imperil the Western economies...
...world's largest and most powerful laser. On the other hand, experts at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque are pinning their hopes for achieving fusion on the descendants of an already operating machine called Proto, which fires a beam of electrons at the pellet, zapping it with a jolt equal to 8 trillion watts...
...That would make the deficit $48.7 billion -$10 billion less than the one projected in the budget left behind by Ford. An angry Senate Budget Committee last week called Carter's top economic policymakers to explain why they thought so huge a reduction in planned stimulus would not jolt the economy...
...which gives them a new perspective. He likes to describe this new ability to see the whole from a distance as a Martian perspective. Yet only after such an experience are Percy's characters capable of love, a principle solidified in his third novel, Love in the Ruins. This jolt is so essential to his conception of man in the modern world that he worries "Not what will happen if the Bomb should drop, but what if it should not drop...
Atwood points out that the News got into deep trouble only when Frederick ("Ted") Field, Kay Fanning's son by her first marriage to wealthy Chicagoan Marshall Field IV, stopped subsidizing the paper last October. Fanning agrees that the loss of the $500,000 annual subvention was a jolt and that she is seeking that amount to keep the News afloat for a year. But she blames Atwood for most of her current trouble. Says she: "What it comes down to is that the Times has absolute management control with no accountability...