Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Olympics in Rome, J.M. Tanner, a British doctor, conducted X-ray and photographic studies of athletes. Tanner too reported that blacks had longer limbs and narrower hips, which for a runner provides a longer stride. According to Edward Hunt, an anthropologist at Penn State University, blacks tend to have lighter trunks and heavier bones. The average black's lungs are a little smaller relative to body weight. Then, too, young blacks carry less body fat than white youths. These characteristics, combined with relatively larger limbs and hands, he says, should be advantageous for sports that require quick movement...
...need for action has not necessarily passed us by, but Ullman will attempt a lighter, comical approach...
Perhaps most important for its prospects of success, Carter's program would not drastically alter the life-styles of most Americans. There would be a significant shift toward smaller, lighter cars (although many cars designed to meet the gradually increasing gasoline-efficiency standards, and thus avoid a tax penalty, could readily seat six people), but that trend has already begun. People on limited incomes might well have to plan shopping trips more carefully and curtail nonessential driving. Teen-agers in middle-income families might have to bicycle to school instead of driving their own cars...
...someone had been seated just one row forward, he might have lived instead of died. If there had been no terrorist bombing at Las Palmas. If the KLM plane had not refueled, would its lighter weight have provided a lifesaving extra lift? If KLM had waited just 30 seconds more to take off. If Pan Am had moved a bit faster to its exit?or slower...
...Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average 20 m.p.g.; by 1985 the average must be 27.5 m.p.g. That is now an impossible goal unless auto engineers make dramatic-and unexpected-breakthroughs in engine efficiency and the use of lighter metals for body construction. Says Schlesinger: "A lighter car that gives 25 m.p.g., v. a heavier car that gives 12 m.p.g., is a relatively minor issue compared with not having cars...