Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nose of his huge craft abruptly into the air to leapfrog over the Clipper. Pilot Grubbs was also violently yanking his ship to the left to get out of the way. Experts estimate that the KLM plane needed only 25 ft. of added altitude to avoid the collision, saving the Pan Am passengers. Whether Veldhuizen could have controlled his plane to avoid crashing is questionable. "He probably knew he had no chance himself," said a Pan Am investigator at Tenerife. "He tried to save...
...into the Indians? Some scholars believe they never did fully abandon their hopes of regaining lost land and privileges. In Land Grab (1972), John Upton Terrell argues that from the very first coming of the white man the Indians' primary urge has been "defense, a ceaseless struggle to save their homes, their resources, their lives." This view may exaggerate the constancy of the Indians' will during an era when they were displaced by a relentlessly expanding society. Yet that will has plainly stiffened. In Apologies to the Iroquois (1959), Edmund Wilson noted the emergence of a sort...
...more attention to means than ends," Desai says. "I would not give up truth to save the world." Once, when TIME Correspondent James Shepherd asked him why he always seemed so sure of his own infallibility, Desai replied calmly, "Because I'm an instrument of God." Friends say he has considerably mellowed with age and from his recent period in prison, where he passed the time peacefully spinning yarn, memorizing the Bhagavad-Gita, updating his autobiography and writing about natural medicine...
...operations were actually performed, a phenomenal increase over the previous year's total of 129,000. Villagers told bitter jokes against Mrs. Gandhi, one of them based on her 1971 election slogan, GARIBI HATAO (abolish poverty). The new slogan: INDIRA HATAO, INDRI BACHAO (abolish Indira and save your penis...
According to cost-effectiveness studies by Schlesinger's staff, it costs only a tenth as much to save energy as to produce it. Further, the U.S., which makes far less efficient use of energy than almost any other industrialized country, has a lot of power to save. The Administration's goal: to reduce by one-third the annual growth of total energy consumption and cut foreign oil imports by roughly half, to 5 million...