Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with belts use them all the time. Hundreds of irate motorists have complained to auto companies that the seat belts are uncomfortable to sit on, and frustrated drivers have used fists, hammers and screw drivers to bollix the red-flashing "Fasten Seat Belts" sign in the Ford Thunderbird. Psychologists reckon that people reject the seat belt because it is a fear-inducing reminder that accidents can happen, and it insults their ability to avoid them; many would rather indulge their foolhardy feelings of derring-do and invulnerability or their fatalistic instincts that "when it's my turn...
Some 20 to 50 times in a lacrosse game, the attackers fire a little ball toward the defenders' goal. The Crimson lacrosse team this spring is going to have to reckon with this fact, because it does not have a single experienced goalie...
...efficiency and economy. States could also raise more revenue with less pain if they abandoned most nuisance taxes in favor of income taxes, which grow along with the economy, and they could lower sales taxes by reducing the number of exempted goods, such as food and drugs. Economists reckon that with such changes the states last year could have increased their sales-and incometax revenues by $5 billion. Of course, the states and localities could always cut away some nonessential spending-but more and more things seem to be essential these days...
...last week's disaster, how must Alabama, Iowa and Army feel? The No. 1 -ranked team in the U.S. last year, Alabama lost to underdog Georgia 18-17. Iowa, picked by many experts to win the Big Ten championship, was upset by Washington State, 7-0. And Army, reckoned as an Eastern power, failed to reckon on Tennessee Sophomore Charles Fulton - who threw two touchdown passes and led the Volunteers to an easy 21-0 victory...
Federal experts reckon that water shortages will become acute in large areas of the U.S. West within the next 20 years. Though desalinization is only a partial answer to the problem of a nation whose water demand is expected to almost double by 1980, it is a challenge that has aroused businessmen, scientists and the Government. Many companies are working on new ideas in the field, including Westinghouse Electric, Colt Industries and Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton. The Interior Department's Office of Saline Water optimistically predicts that, in 35 years, between 7% and 10% of the nation's fresh...