Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel there should be more debate and discussion before a department is created," argues Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, who handles the issue in the office. Schmidt's (read: Harvard's) concerns are echoed by national decision-makers. "Frankly, I am appalled by the rush of some members of Congress to create this department despite the lack of information available about the actual impact of these structural changes," Rep. Chisholm told the House Government Operations Committee last year. Chisholm labels the department "a $17 million shot in the dark...
...year if it can successfully buy Reliance Electric Co., a Cleveland-based maker of electric motors that had sales of $966 million in 1978. The takeover, which appears to be a friendly one, would give the oil company the electrical expertise and production lines that it needs to rush the new device to market. The trustbusters may object, since the oil majors are under attack for spending profits on non-oil diversifications. But the Department of Energy quite possibly will conclude that the Reliance takeover would be a form of energy investment. Says a DOE official of the Exxon proposal...
...Southern or Southwestern universities. Some devout Muslim students have returned home. Others are being lured back by various inducements, including the promise of relaxed admissions standards at Iranian universities. Explains Saied Moezzi, a junior in engineering at the University of Kansas: "For some students, it was like a gold rush. Some activists went home to get jobs with the government. Today a nobody can suddenly become someone. People nobody has heard of are Vice Premiers." A few leftist zealots are returning to bring the revolution to what they believe should be its proper Marxist conclusion. "This will be pure Marxism...
...turn-of-the-century Mountie who made a heroic attempt to rescue a stranded patrol, was begun 22 years ago by the Canadian government to spur the economic development of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The road starts at Dawson, hub of the Klondike's 1890s gold rush, laces through the deep green forested valleys of the North Klondike and climbs the rugged Ogilvie Mountains, where it peels off in to rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces the 66° 30 min. latitude of the Arctic Circle. Then...
Since satellite programming began, the industry has expanded with a rush. As recently as 1974-75, Teleprompter was losing money, and some other cable operators were also in financial trouble; they had borrowed heavily to expand after the FCC loosened regulations but got squeezed by high interest rates. Now the industry is bringing in $1.4 billion in revenue a year and posting profits high enough to catch the eye of multinational giants. General Electric has bought into a cable operator and Getty Oil into a programming company. RCA plans this December to send up another Satcom satellite that will carry...