Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Media Campaign. The friends of nuclear power-an odd assortment of business executives, labor leaders, prominent politicians from both parties, some black leaders and nine Nobel-prizewin-ning scientists-waged mostly a media campaign. They contended, correctly, that no one has ever been killed in a civilian nuclear power plant accident, and that the odds against one, given present safety standards, are very high. (One federal study estimated that, if the U.S. contained 100 nuclear plants, an accident severe enough to kill 1,000 people would happen literally once in a million years...
...Richard Holbrooke notes that two strikingly different groups have converged to create a downbeat appraisal of the U.S.: the "guilt-ridden," Viet Nam-haunted American Left, and a number of "neoconservatives" including Henry Kissinger, former U.N. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan and ex-Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. It was an odd linkage for the members of this trio, who strongly disagree on some policies and would certainly deny being downbeat on America. At any rate, says Holbrooke, the U.S. is not in bad shape-it still leads the world in gross national product, food production and military strength. Warnings of America...
...Hollywood, Neil Simon, Broadway's best comic playwright, seemed destined to dissolve into orange juice. The master of the sharp New York-Jewish one-liner, the one man who has been able to keep Broadway alive and kicky for 15 years -with Sunshine Boys, Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple and The Prisoner of Second Avenue-could not possibly survive in all that gossamer. He was too deep into Broadway to travel well. His brains would scramble in the sun. The sands of Malibu would jam his typewriter if tennis elbow did not strike him limp first. Simon told...
...then the next fall we'd take on B.U. and UMass. Fine, I'm all for it. But this wholesale reshuffling is going too far. The nearly perfect alphabetical order of ivy opponents has been obliterated, the two Southern schools (Penn and Princeton) both play in Cambridge in odd-numbered years, and we're being asked to play a league opponent, albeit Columbia, before getting a chance to polish skills against two non-league teams. It's hard to say which of these developments is the worst...
Other customers do. Waiting time for a new Mercedes-Benz ranges from five months to 14 (for the relatively plebeian-priced $6,738 diesel 200 model), and would-be buyers who are not employees are getting annoyed. So Daimler-Benz has made an odd request: that employees sell their year-old models not to the highest bidder but to Mercedes dealers, who will recondition the cars and sell them. "We are appealing to our employees' sense of responsibility," says a company spokesman. "We point out that they will be helping to ensure the company's future if they...