Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consensus among nuclear and strategic seers-and there probably will be none. In the Senate, where skepticism of most military undertakings is very much in vogue these days, the pre-vote count remains against Safeguard, 49 to 42, with nine Senators wobbling. The Administration therefore is in no rush for a Senate decision. Instead, it is hoping to win the undecideds over to its side. In the more militant House, members are at least 2 to 1 in favor of Safeguard, with the leadership of both parties in firm support of the program...
Soothing Rides. Of more interest to its future passengers, BART is designed to be fast, comfortable, convenient and cheap to use. The 7½-mile trip between San Francisco and Oakland across the Bay Bridge can take 30 minutes or considerably longer in rush-hour jams. Hurtling its riders beneath San Francisco Bay through the world's longest underwater transit tube-3.6 miles-BART will make the trip in nine minutes. The BART trains will hit a top speed of 80 m.p.h. and will average 50 m.p.h., including the time taken at stops. The rides will be soothing...
Sealed Tunnel. After probing for three months, the diggers struck a rectangular masonry shaft that began at the city level of Ahab's time (about 850 B.C.) and dropped past the debris of 13 older cities. As Yadin was removing rubble near the bottom of the shaft, "a rush of hot air hit me in the face." He had uncovered a 12-ft.-high tunnel that had been sealed since Biblical times. At its other end, 100 ft. away, Yadin saw water sparkling in the torchlights. Instead of depending on springs, Ahab's engineers had dug deep...
...turbulence began with a modest run on the wobbly franc after Charles de Gaulle resigned and speculators became convinced that France would order a long-anticipated devaluation (TIME, May 9). Then, last week, the attack on the franc turned into a far more disruptive rush to buy West German marks. Convinced that economically potent Germany must soon raise the official value of its robust currency, speculators and more conservative businessmen all over the world swapped their money for marks in the expectation of a quick profit. A speculator who converted $2,500,000 into marks, for example, stood...
...immediate reason for the jump to last week's peak was the rush to borrow Eurodollars for conversion into German marks. Big-time speculators found it much easier to borrow on the Eurodollar market than to dig into their own pockets for the money...