Word: messe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, oil company executives were summoned to Washington to discuss the great pipeline snafu. Interior officials are blunt about the cause. As one told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "Somebody cheated. It's a big mess." Beyond the 28 welds known to be defective, Interior officials are concerned that another 1,750 might fall short of federal standards for the Arctic, where winter temperatures can drop...
...plus 500-a-mile. Tom Mankiewicz's screenplay owes more than it ought to MASH, but it has found a way to get into the underbelly of a city, to survey the twilight territory where tragedy and comedy trip over each other and make an unsightly mess. What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks...
...fuss. "There's nothing to get excited about," he told TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields. "I think it will all work out." How could a market professional like Simplot, at 67 a veteran of half a century in the potato business, get drawn into such a mess? The biggest factor was the volatility of the May potato-futures contract. From a low of $5.92 per 100 Ibs. of potatoes in February 1975, when trading in the May contract began, the price zoomed to almost $20, dropped back to $8, went up again to about $17, then fell...
...trouble was that he could find nothing finer. Imagine life conceived as a business of beautiful muscular organization--an arising, an effort, a good break, a sweat, a bath, a meal, a love, a sleep--imagine it achieved; then imagine trying to apply this standard to the horribly complicated mess of living, where nothing, even the greatest conceptions and workings and achievements, is else but messy, spotty, tortuous--and then one can imagine the confusion that Ring faced on coming out of the park...
...first of 200 hard cases-inmates convicted of at least two crimes-will arrive next week at the new maximum security federal prison at Butner, N.C., take one look and assume they are in a play pen. No gun towers, no cell blocks, no cavernous mess halls, no barred windows. At orientation, each inmate will be given a definite date for his release and be told that much of what he does until then will be up to him, but that nothing he does will get him out any earlier. His guards will wear blazers and slacks...