Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other planners scoffed, arguing that with runaway population growth, man might not survive the next century, let alone reach Ecumenopolis. But even if his fondest dream seems unattainable, Doxiadis at the very least was responsible for taking city planning for the first time into developing countries and convincing world leaders of its importance. He was in effect the profession's supersalesman...
...finally resolved. On the brink of default, New York City, with some help from the state and major banks, found a device to cover $792 million in short-term notes that were due. And thousands of city and state doctors ended a nine-day slowdown protesting the runaway cost of malpractice insurance...
...Many developing nations, for example, want to "index" raw materials prices to the trend of world prices for all kinds of goods as a method of transferring wealth from rich countries to poor lands. The U.S. and most other industrial nations fear that indexing would touch off a permanent runaway inflation that would hurt the whole world. For that matter, there is not even agreement within the Administration on how conciliatory U.S. policy should be. Kissinger has had little support from economic planners at the Treasury for his overtures to the producing nations...
Among the personalities lately subjected to runaway inflation, none is more pathetic than Judy Garland. Along the parabola that describes her career, Garland made 37 films. Only a handful are memorable and only one, The Wizard of Oz, is a classic. But she gave more than 100 concerts and broadcasts that brought millions of listeners in on her waif length. Eventually her performances also exhibited-as at a sideshow-a manic-depressive grotesque who shrilled off-key and forgot once familiar lyrics. In the last years she attracted throngs of gay and melancholy Garland freaks whose adulation was a form...
...zany mixture of razzle-dazzle football, playground basketball and soccer, Ultimate Frisbee has sprouted on campuses in the East in the past few years and is spreading westward. It could prove to be just the solution for colleges crippled by the runaway cost of athletics -as well as for students who want to play a team sport that avoids high-pressure, must-win contests...