Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesuits, like other factions within the church, are running blindly first in one direction, then the other. It is a helter-skelter rush past the actual problems besieging the human race. What is amazing is the polyglot of practices and beliefs attributed to the strikingly simple philosophy of one man-Jesus...
...North Sea usually roil in a fit of rage, the skies are oppressively gray, and the fog hangs on for weeks. Yet visitors are flocking to the sea's cold coastline as if it were the Riviera. They are coming to join the world's most frenetic rush for undersea oil and gas. No fewer than 350 companies and consortiums have begun putting up money for the search, investments expected to total $12.5 billion over the next ten years. Their ranks include such American giants as Exxon, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf and Phillips...
Scotland stands to benefit too. Aberdeen, once a somnolent fishing city, has become the undisputed center of the oil rush. Some 250 companies, many of them American-owned, are supplying everything from helicopters to hot meals for the drillers; unemployment in the city has dropped to 2.7%, half the Scottish average. But Aberdonians do not count the boom an unmixed blessing. Oilmen confide that the danger of a pipeline break under the North Sea is high. Many Scots worry that some day a tide of oil will roll in from the sea, burying their sandy beaches and destroying watering spots...
...consumer confidence in the 22 years that it has been taking soundings. Its index fell from 90.8 at the end of 1972 to 80.8 in February and March of this year. Consumers are deeply afraid of both further inflation and future recession. Ironically, these very ideas are making people rush to buy appliances, cars and houses before prices go even higher and before bad times come; such scare buying tends to prompt exactly the price boosts that consumers fear. Another index of confidence in the economy, the stock market, also took a pounding last week; the Dow Jones industrial average...
Harvard students do not seem to be alone in the rush to test their endurance in unusual ways. George Berman '75, a Lowell House resident, said Saturday that the Thursday dining hall incident paled before antics at other colleges...