Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coupled craft lifted to 16,000 ft., banked both left and right at 300 m.p.h. to test the ability of the 747 to carry its historic passenger in a stable fashion. At 10,000 ft., Pilot Fulton ran through other tests, including shutting off one engine and lowering the landing gear. Fulton's only unusual sensation was "a slight buffeting" caused by the bird perched on his plane's back. The touch down looked every bit as smooth as a commercial 747 landing at New York's J.F.K. Airport...
...newly united country remains, according to one top analyst, among the 25 poorest nations in the world. Its rich mineral resources, including oil, are largely untapped. In the wake of war, agriculture is a shambles. Viet Nam's foreign trade, mostly with the Soviet Union and Japan, ran a disastrous $570 million deficit last year...
Master Charge grew from 5.7 million cardholders who charged $312 million worth of purchases in 1967 to 40 million holders-one out of every four adult Americans-who ran up bills of $13.5 billion last year. One major reason: banks deliberately offer the cards to many people who cannot meet the requirements of American Express and Diners Club for a minimum income of $10,000 a year. Chemical Bank in New York City says it "probably" will grant a Master Charge card to a person in his 20s who has been employed for only six months and earns...
...temptation-prone come from all income levels. One client of New York's Community Credit Counseling Service made $80,000 a year as a brokerage-house partner and counted on receiving a $300,000 inheritance, so he ran up bills of more than $150,000. Still waiting for the inheritance, he is now spending almost half his income to pay off under an extended plan at $3,100 a month. In Los Angeles, Kenneth Breckenridge, 42, a mail sorter, and his wife Genevieve, a teacher in the Head Start program, found themselves paying $1,178 of their combined...
When she finished there was an awesome void; she shriveled up and disappeared. Gone. The next day's Crimson ran a story about a missing person of unknown identity. Gone was the fanfare, the Hasty Pudding's massive publicity, the flash-bulb impressions. Gone were the front pages of every major newspaper. Gone were our illusions about ourselves and the world. Gone was our mythology. Static...