Word: runaways
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...really needs this fall is one runaway hit, a Charlie's Angels or a Mork and Mindy. With a smasheroo to help pull up other shows, and with the Moscow Olympics to build on in 1980, NBC could be right back in the thick of things in 18 months. ABC did it in 1976, and its pretax profits' vault would make even "Bottom Line Ed" proud: from $17 million in 1975 to $110 million...
...modify the emergency core-cooling systems (which are designed to pour thousands of gallons of cooling water on a runaway reactor and thereby prevent The China Syndrome-type meltdown that was narrowly averted at Three Mile Island...
...brutal murders took place between September 1977 and February 1978 and brought a reign of terror to Los Angeles. Women were afraid to walk alone at night, even in residential areas. The strangler's victims included a prostitute and a runaway, whose nude bodies were found tossed into wooded areas. His eighth and ninth victims, however, were twelve-year-old girls, school chums at a Catholic elementary school who disappeared while out shopping. The killer dumped their bodies near Dodger Stadium...
...Harvard varsity linksters bounced back from last Saturday's dismal loss to Princeton and Yale with a runaway victory over MIT and Bates yesterday at the windswept Brae Burn Country Club in Newton...
...Hearst was ill, another insisted that she was not. To radicals, feminists and homosexuals, psychiatry is just one more villainous agent of the status quo. More than a century ago, an antebellum psychiatrist blithely explained that slaves who tried to escape from their masters were suffering from "dromomania," the runaway disease. How does the public know that 20th century psychiatry is not still retailing dromomania in more sophisticated guises...