Word: save
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy crisis could serve as a goad to reinstate ingenuity and selfdiscipline. If it does, America may save more than energy. If it doesn't, America will find that oil is only the first of many other shortages...
...plan, Kennedy said, would cost Americans "only" $35.7 billion a year net; he arrived at that figure by subtracting from the federal and employer tab of $63.8 billion the sum of $28.1 billion which he claims the nation would save in medical bills. On the same basis, Carter's plan would save $6 billion, reducing its net cost to $18.3 billion. The Senator claimed that the eventual cost of the fuller scheme that the President promised to work for would be $60 billion a year...
...only well-staged sequence is the fight, which is sufficiently suspenseful and lifelike to save the movie from box office disaster. With the addition of Dolby Stereo this time around, every left hook sounds like a rocket taking off in Star Wars. Otherwise, the direction is crude...
...cream cone, and the lower part is filled with electronic components; it will screw into standard sockets and will have two settings, a low of 75 watts and a high of 150 watts. The bulb will go on sale in 1981, which will give customers time to save up for it. Price: $10, vs. $1.50 for a conventional three-way bulb. Over its 5,000-hr. life, the company says, each Halarc could save $20 in electricity costs...
...building a subplot about Arkin's wife and her discovery of her husband's entanglement with Falk, and then drops it without a blink. This is not the stuff of entertaining movies, let alone good ones, and Hiller was lucky he had an actor as talented as Falk to save his film...