Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim. The audience can also identify with the aggressor. You don't see the first two attacks from the victim's perspective. You don't even see the shark. What you see is a naked pair of nubile legs fluttering several feet above, or two tiny feet kicking a rubber raft a short distance to the surface. You circle around, sensing your prey, and when you're sure, you rise up at full speed...
...they are treacherously playing on nerves. One Cape Cod theater runs a telephone tape that announces, "Jaws is playing. See it before you go swimming." Shark jokes are all black; in an interview with "Hollywood's No. 1 star" on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked a foam rubber great white, "How do you keep your teeth clean?" Snapped the shark: "I swallow people with naturals...
...decision to destroy her. Would other methods of treatment have worked? Continuous sedation is unrealistic because a horse lying too long on its side develops radial paralysis; placing a horse in a sling often impairs circulation and waste elimination and could cause death; finally, putting a horse on a rubber raft in a pool, so that kicking off a cast becomes impossible, is still an experimental technique. At 'week's end Jack Dreyfus, chairman of the board of the New York racing association, said, "The inadequacy of knowing what to do was the problem. It happened to strike...
...clustered in the world's southern hemisphere will try to align and squeeze higher prices out of the relatively rich industrial nations of the northern hemisphere. Already the two sides are squabbling over what to do about the wild swings in prices of such basic materials as copper, rubber and cocoa...
...Middle East. Further, in a side trip to two economic conferences in Paris, Kissinger promised that the U.S. would begin building what he called a "new order" in the world economy. He signaled American willingness to talk with developing nations about stabilizing prices for raw materials like copper, rubber and cocoa as well as oil. In a related step aimed at impressing the OPEC cartel that the U.S. is determined to conserve energy, Ford imposed a second $1-per-barrel tariff on imported oil and proposed phasing out price controls on domestic oil later this month (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...