Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smokey used plenty of "pleases" and "thank yous" in posters and broadcast spots. He still often does, but since forest fires have become such a problem, says a U.S. Forest Service spokesman, "we felt we needed to say it a little more forcefully this year." So, in a 60-sec. radio spot, a camper croons a story of how he left a fire burning, and then a bold new Smokey takes charge. He angrily bares his teeth and sings: "My name is Smokey, and I used to ask folks nice/ To stir their campfire with a stick and drown that...
...driver, with eyes only three feet above the asphalt, the sensation, if not the speed, is supersonic. He is competing with the clock. As he crosses the finish line, his time is shown in lighted, 2-ft.-high digital figures. First time around it may be a humiliating 98.46 sec. After a few more heart-in-mouth laps, it may be 66.11. But our hero-or heroine-knows well that the record for the Northridge track...
...Fonz") Winkler went off the track on his first lap. But the best customers, the Malibu managers maintain, are the nonfamous people like the 42-year-old woman who set a track record-Alltime Slowest-on her first time out. She did the first 800-meter lap in 212 sec.-equivalent to 6½ m.p.h.-thereby qualifying for the Guinness Book of World Records as surely as any Andretti...
...Yeah, you over there, the funny-looking one. Come here for a sec, will...
...Securities and Exchange Commission on the debacle. The report charged Beame, other top municipal officials, some major commercial banks and Wall Street institutions with misleading the public in order to sell about $4 billion in short-term notes between October 1974 and March 1975. City officials, said the SEC, were well aware of the metropolis' financial shakiness. Yet they cooked city books to conceal the danger and issued reports that failed to reveal the true picture. Beame's immediate response was to call the report a "shameless, vicious, political document," deliberately timed to embarrass him and full...