Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure of is that 100% of them would not even have got their foot in the door had they not built up a work record with Maverick...
...economics of gas sales has spurred competition for the big companies from regional chains that go by such names as Raceway (Alabama), Maverick (Colorado) and Fas Gas (Texas). What gasoline men describe as "the Taj Mahal of the self-service" is also an independent: a place in Las Vegas called Terrible Herbst that features 48 pumps, all run by a staff of two. The stations of the future, some oilmen say, may be somewhat like those run by an outfit in Brussels called Nafta, where a motorist punches his credit card number into a computer, then fills up his tank...
Died. Loren Corey Eiseley, 69, maverick anthropologist, educator and author (The Immense Journey, Darwin's Century); of cardiac arrest; in Philadelphia. Eiseley taught for 30 years at the University of Pennsylvania, but his poetic writing, which bridged the gap between art and science, won him a wide audience outside the scholarly world. Although reconciled to the fact that "there is but one way into the future: the technological way," Eiseley's lyric musings harkened back to humanity's primal origins and the wisdom in fairy tales. Man's "basic and oldest characteristic," he wrote, is "that...
...what is bad for Moscow is by no means automatically good for Washington. Like the other Eurocommunists, Santiago Carrillo, maverick though he may be, is ultimately as opposed to Western systems as he is to the Soviet dictatorship...
...Street (once home of the Turkish intelligence agency), he plunged into talks to see whether he could form an effective government. His goal: getting promises either of abstention or of direct support from scattered independents and defectors from other parties. By week's end Ecevit had corralled five maverick votes and was conducting an "underground" search for more to hammer together a minority government. The alternative was a coalition with the National Salvation Party (24 seats), which Demirel was forced to take into the current government. The N.S.P. leader is Necmettin Erbakan, 51, a smug hard-liner who insists...