Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second jet, had been practicing formation turns. Neither Sabre jet had radar, and it was only at the last second that Ichikawa's instructor told him to climb and turn. Ichikawa recalled later: "I saw a civilian plane approach from the rear and felt a jolt in my tail." The young pilot was able to bail out safely. Both he and his instructor were being held by police on possible involuntary homicide charges...
British pro-Marketers make the opposite argument -that without the stimulus or even jolt of Market membership, Britain will continue sliding downhill. As the London Times put it recently: "It used to be said that Rolls-Royce was Britain; if we stay out of Europe, Britain will be Rolls-Royce." Continental proponents of an expanded EEC make much the same argument. They reason that Britain's entry will enliven the Common Market and ultimately accelerate progress toward European unity. By contrast, British failure to gain admission would cause a period of disillusion and recrimination within the Common Market, especially...
...more concerned with subsidizing farmers than with feeding children, is chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. We Americans have woven a tight web of institutions that imprison us, limit our decision and scope. To imagine that enlightened conversation will change things is just wrong. You must administer a jolt...
...jolt has reached thousands of small and intermediate-sized firms, from major subcontractors to the bars and bowling alleys where aerospace workers spend the nonessential parts of their paychecks. Times are especially perilous for the four titans of the industry, the billion-dollar corporations that serve as prime contractors and provide a strong source of support for whole cities. Though their individual states of health range from critical to fairly good, every one has been forced to cut jobs over the past three years, as the following employment figures show: 1968 1971 Lockheed 93,000 75,000 Boeing...
...credibility of the optimistic official Pentagon and White House assessment of the Laos campaign received a jolt yesterday when the U. S. Command in Saigon quietly revealed that nearly half of the Saigon troops sent into Laos are now dead, wounded or missing in action. The figure was twice that given by the official South Vietnamese spokesman...