Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dirt road so bombed out that any vehicle cuts its life in half driving on it every day (when the execs visit they drive company cars, and the road isn't even scraped anymore since the superintendent got a helicopter). The drive takes 45 minutes. When they jolt to the end. Dan Sizemore points out the coal train that hauls thousands of tons through a cement tunnel and out to society. In ten minutes the boxcars will pass within a quarter of a mile of the Sizemore's house. "Tells you where we stand," he says...
...much better able to withstand another cutoff of foreign oil, since Americans would be compelled by higher prices to reduce their prodigious waste of energy. But if the program fails, the consequences could be dire indeed. The $16 billion in rebates and tax credits might be too weak to jolt the economy out of its alarming slumpflation; in that case, the nation could suffer a prolonged agony of unemployment rates higher than any since before World War II. In addition, the higher prices for oil and natural gas that Ford plans could restore the raging inflation that is only...
...that in the good old days (circa 1860 to 1910), pigs crowded people off New York streets, untreated garbage brought disease to the suburbs, Chicagoans and Pittsburghers lived in perpetual smog -the word coined by a Glasgow sanitary engineer in 1905. The author's words and pictures also jolt the modern reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and even home cooking. Writes Bettmann of that time: "The masses were forced to subsist on a crude and scanty diet of which tea and bread were staples, supplemented now and then...
Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, said yesterday that the loss of the Canaday revenues to pay for the overrun is a "disappointment and not a jolt" to the housing account...
...invited to take over the discussion. The final outside expert is a lawyer who explains how to file for divorce. Last year, as an added touch of realism, Allen brought in a recent-and embittered -divorcee to talk about financial problems. "She really gave the kids a jolt," he says. Toward the end of the course, the couple must spin a "wheel of misfortune" that lists nine possible catastrophes (for example, the breadwinner is fired, the mother-in-law moves in or part of the house burns), all of which lead eventually to divorce...