Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's planetary grand finale will occur in September, when Pioneer 11 reaches Saturn almost five years after its visit to Jupiter. It will pass just outside Saturn's rings, sending back the first closeup pictures of those flat bands of icy debris. During that close encounter, Pioneer will also train its electronic gaze on the huge Saturnine moon, Titan, which has a diameter of some 5,800 km (3,600 miles) and a significant atmosphere, probably consisting of methane, other gases, and organic molecules like those that may have been the precursors of life on earth...
...Emily Post had been unraveling for years, of course. But to many of the young in the '60s, the laid-back luftmenschen of the counterculture, manners were as superfluous as flatware at McDonald's (the late 20th century's reversion to its fingers) or linen napkins at the Donner Pass. To this last half-generation, manners were sexist, hypocritical...
When a film is as wrongheaded as this one, it is hard to know which flaws are the most damaging. Perhaps one begins with the lethargic Attenborough, who has managed to miscast the film's central role Hopkins cannot even begin to pass for the New York-bred, borscht-circuit entertainer Magic claims...
Then there is Goldman's script, which refuses to make up in wit what it lacks in thrills Goldman chooses instead to litter his dialogue with allegedly with-it references (from Steve Martin to the Four Seasons restaurant), as if sheer name drop ping might pass for sophistication...
...costly to switch to lead-free production, and difficult to turn out fuel that meets the Government's minimum octane standards and still allows the new cars to run smoothly. To encourage increased no-lead output, as of Dec. 1 the Department of Energy will allow refiners to pass more of the actual costs of producing gas on to consumers, which could mean a further increase in prices from 2? to 4? per gal. In the past year, the average price at the major companies' stations has risen from about 62½? per gal. to more than...