Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international monetary upheaval also accelerated the great shrimp rush. Before the new currency rates were set, the Japanese wanted to get rid of some of their huge supply of U.S. dollars and used them to buy shrimp on world markets. Now that the yen is worth more in terms of "old" dollars-17% more when revaluation is completed-trading greenbacks for shrimp has become an even better bargain. Whether or not the shrimp is sounder than the dollar, the fact is that shrimp can be stockpiled safely for more than a year, and they are always in tremendous demand...
...volunteer firemen of Genoa, Texas, in suburban Houston, that was not enough. In the past three years, eight bored Genoa firemen have set about 40 fires in abandoned buildings and grass fields. As soon as the blazes were going, the arsonists would dash back to the firehouse and rush off to put out their own fires...
Actually, say McDonald's officials, the men were boys: high school students working the evening hours for the then-minimum wage of $1.30 per hour. But when the boys are in school during the noontime rush, housewives come in to work from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Since few of them would work for $3.90 per day, McDonald's devised a "short-shift premium" to bring noon wages up to as much as $2 an hour...
...back on automotive products, but may actually pick up in telecommunications." The fact that so much of ITT's volume is in telecommunications equipment should be a continuing help. Demand remains strong in both good times and bad, as Europeans clamor for telephones and state-owned operating companies rush to increase the supply. In France next year, Bergerac expects a 36% rise in sales of telecommunications products...
ENDS. Walt Patulski, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 6 in., 260 Ibs., and Sherman White, California, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs. A consensus All-America, Patulski is lauded by one team as "the best we've seen for many years." All but unstoppable on the pass rush, he dazzled the experts with his "amazing agility and lateral mobility." One scout predicts that Patulski may be the first defensive lineman ever picked No. 1 in the draft since the Colts made Michigan State's Bubba Smith their first choice in 1967. White is a former high school basketball star...