Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among unique features of the building, designed by Harry Weese & Associates, will be double-decked elevators, designed to end rush-hour jams. Coming to work, staff members will be able to enter the lower or upper section of the cars from different lobby levels, depending on whether they work on odd-or even-numbered floors. Once at work, they will be protected from extreme fluctuations of exterior light or heat by deep gold glass mirrored to keep out most solar rays. This will also create a one-way view out during the day, while at night, bright interior illumination will...
Target & Muscle. The deficit grows out of the nation's vast commitments around the world-and the insatiable wanderlust of millions of its well-heeled citizens. In 1967, the outflow turned to a flood-between $3.5 billion and $4 billion. Major factors included the tourist rush to Canada's Expo 67, the outpouring of private funds to finance Israel's costly war, the slowdown in Europe's economies and, most important of all, Britain's devaluation of the pound, which caused a speculative rush for gold and put intense pressure on the gold-backed...
...glut try to treat aviation within the existing rule of individual right to the air. A few experts take a more radical tack. They would create a federal aviation traffic cop to assign not only flight routes but also schedules and air speeds, thus spreading the jarm out of rush hours. Instead of informing the FAA of his flight plan and being accommodated no matter what the crush, every civilian pilot would have to notify a controller of his intentions and ask: "When...
Across the U.S., the airport rush hour is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Here-as compiled from figures supplied by the FAA, the airlines and air-traffic controllers-are the average number of daily takeoffs and landings at the 20 busiest U.S. commercial airports, and the average rush-hour time a plane wastes circling the field or waiting to take...
...clubs have special rituals, such as the "night ambush." Around 11 p.m., the members descend on their source at his home or office, extract from him the latest news and rush it off for the final editions. Anyone who breaks club rules is disciplined. When a reporter once got an exclusive interview with Sato without his club's permission, he was banned from briefings with the Prime Minister for a week...