Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After carrying the ball past two defenders, Nelson found himself in a two-on-one rush with co-captain Bullard. Cutting inside, Nelson slipped a pass to his right for Bullard, who noticed the goalie out of the goal mouth and rocketed a shot across the goal mouth into the upper left corner of the nets...
...course, the 1976 campaign began a long time ago, for politicians and journalists alike. Reporter-Researchers Eileen Chiu and Anne Hopkins have been busy with the rush of political events since early spring. For Washington Correspondent Dean Fischer, who has switched back and forth over G.O.P. turf this year, the campaign has been a mixed affair. "Can a refugee from the Reagan campaign find a haven in the White House?" he asks. That may not be too difficult, since Fischer covered the President for two years, including the early primaries. Says he: "It's like coming home again...
...happen? The cause of the renewed U.S. oil binge is the economic recovery combined with a reckless return of American extravagance when it comes to energy. Even before the vacation rush began this year, motorists were using about as much gasoline as they had been in 1972, before the recession and the quintupling of foreign oil prices that drove the cost of gas to 60? or 70? per gal. at the pump (see chart...
...Enter Rush Welter, 52. A wiry, white-haired American civilization professor, Welter is, at first, Gail's chief opponent on the faculty. He puns about her in Old English, lamenting that "A summa is icumen in," but he is unimpressed with her scholarship, and he is furious at her for getting an affirmative action resolution to hire women passed. They confer often, he giving her a tutorial on the politics of the place; then their intellectual flirtation turns into an affair. They teach a course together. When the students read Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Parker and Welter...
...reason is that there has been a rush by electric utilities, mining and oil companies to acquire coal producers and pump money into them, just as Kennecott did with Peabody. Indeed, Wall Streeters give the copper company high marks for its prescience in getting into the coal industry ahead of everyone else. Yet that obviously was a mistake on Kennecott's part too. No other big purchaser of a coal company has been bothered by the FTC, even though some might provide clearer examples of potential antitrust violations than Kennecott. In other words, the FTC ruling, despite its success...