Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither the pessimists nor the optimists can afford to be dogmatic. Says Sheldon Lambert, manager of energy economics and forecasting for Shell: "Anyone who says he knows exactly what the reserves are or when we are going to run out of gas and oil is either naive or stupid." Areas that seem promising often turn out to be duds. U.S. companies have sunk well after well off the northwest coast of Florida in a spot where the geological characteristics seemed encouraging; they all have been dry. By contrast, oil turns up in places that looked hopeless. In the North...
After trouncing the Big Red, Columbia's powder keg offense seems ready to erupt after remaining quiescent throughout midseason. Folowing the first three games of the season against Harvard, Lafayette and Penn, the backfield had churned for 667 yards, and Columbia was running ninth in the voting for the Lambert Trophy...
...action, if not the scoring, began with nine minutes gone in the first period when Harvard's Murray Dea and the Kings' Chuck Lambert fought on the ice and were tossed out of the game...
...Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, bomb threats have become so common (they average five a month; one closed the airport for an hour last week) that teams of experts using a dog can check the entire airport in 15 minutes. Nonetheless, even experienced personnel were extra cautious last week. Passengers who left their bags for a moment to buy a newspaper or take a drink of water sometimes returned to find them seized...
...Ever since 1921, Warner-Lambert has advertised that Listerine would help to prevent colds and sore throats or at least ease their symptoms. Those claims are misleading, the FTC decided, citing scientific testimony that Listerine has "no efficacy" in either preventing or helping to cure sore throats and colds (some experts said that warm water would do as well). So the FTC ordered Warner-Lambert not only to stop making the claims but to include a statement in the next $10.2 million worth of Listerine ads-about one year's budget-that "contrary to prior advertising, Listerine will...