Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Together with the retirement of Assistant Director Dwight Dalby a few months ago, this rush for the exit will leave vacant four of the 13 top posts in the bureau. By a quirk of the FBI retirement law, the three leaving next month will collect an extra cost-of-living retirement bonus, but that is not the main reason for their quitting...
There is no guarantee that the peace will persist. At week's end, the dollar declined slightly again, and a new gold rush could start at any time. Industrial demand for the metal is rising faster than supply. Existing stocks are so small -according to one estimate, the entire trading supply would fit nicely on the stage of Radio City Music Hall-that speculators can drive the price up or down almost at will. And there is always the danger that in the ensuing monetary turmoil, some government will conclude that its currency is floating to an unrealistically high...
...rush of orders is helping to push businessmen into a surge of modernization and expansion. The latest McGraw-Hill survey shows that corporations plan to spend $105.5 billion for new plant and equipment this year, a leap of 19% over last year, and about 5% higher than the Commerce Department was predicting two months ago. In plant investment, says Economist Walter Heller, "we have gone from an expansion to a boomlet to a boom." It should be restrained, he says, by suspending either the investment tax credit or the accelerated depreciation allowance...
...story building. At precisely 8:30, an attendant dropped the barrier, and the race was on. The buyers sprinted through the doorways for the elevators; some of the more vigorous bounded up stairways in an attempt to get ahead of the crowd. It was not a rush for cut-rate panty hose at a discount house; rather, it was the scene at this spring's version of the semiannual Canton Trade Fair, where Chinese traders showed off their wares to the largest collection of foreign businessmen ever. And it was a bust: the eager foreigners found far more high...
...ideals Californians often had. London's delusions are only one example in the long history of the California mind going astray. The first visitors viewed with disgust the polyglot racial mix of Hispanic California, while later Protestant settlers hated the Catholics. Starr dutifully chants the litany of violent gold rush crimes and horrible racist acts against Indians and Chinese, but he makes it clear that these social realities are secondary matters. "...California concealed its sins and all but banished the tragic sense. Crimes remained unacknowledged or were sentimentalized, and, as if by common consent, responsibility was forgotten in the sunshine...