Word: jump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies search for hard-to-get methane gas in deep rock strata. In grain-growing Iowa, Kansas and other farm-belt states, some 1,000 service stations are selling gasohol, made from gasoline with a 10% lacing of grain alcohol, and Carter's program would enable production to jump. Says Robert Chambers of Iowa's A.C.R. Process Corp., an engineering firm for distilleries: "I've been dealing with a lot of people who have not yet given us the go-ahead to order equipment, but the President's program will make a great deal of difference...
...lines like haiku ("Aurora borealis/ The icy sky at night/ Paddles cut the water/ In a long and hurried flight") to verbal lasers of lancing irony ("Hard to believe that love is free now/ Welfare mothers make better lovers"). Young is in such thorough command throughout that he can jump a century between lines of a verse, begin a song like Powderfinger as a folk tale ("Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river"), then turn it into an apocalypse. Of all rock's major figures, Young seems to have absorbed the most...
House prices historically have proved remarkably resistant to economic downturns. Today the supply of homes is limited, and the demand from buyers is likely to remain strong and even grow as more and more baby-boom couples rush to jump aboard the real estate express. The prospect is for prices to continue rising faster than salaries. This will lead to a steady increase in debt, which will burden even well-paid two-income families...
...Venus, sending thousands of views of the carbon dioxide clouds that shroud the planet. Mars, thought by some to be as "boring" as the moon, turns out to be a world with as many oddities and mysteries--with the probable exception of life--as earth. (Where else can you jump off a four-mile cliff or find a volcano that would stretch from Harvard Yard to Toronto?) The planet, as Viking I showed us, looks like a nice place to go for a walk. Its two tiny moons have also been seen up close now, and one of them, Phobos...
...fashioned newspaper promotion battle broke out over Skylab in San Francisco. The Examiner got the jump on its rival by offering $10,000 for any Skylab relic, and even before the reentry, readers were bringing in hunks of metal scrap. The Chronicle responded with a black-bordered frontpage notice that any of its subscribers could collect up to $200,000 for personal and property damage from the space station. Chicago Insurance Expert Robert Schultz belittled such offers by advising that anyone who holds a standard homeowner's policy is already covered against Skylab...