Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishing is that she may actually be a faster boat than Stephens' brand-new Valiant. Her first two races around the triangular 24.3-mile course set the pattern for the trials. With Picker at the helm, Intrepid handily defeated the trial horse Weatherly by 3 min. 55 sec., and then trounced Heritage by the embarrassing margin of 5 min. 17 sec...
...likes supermarkets. She digs rock music. And when she runs, only her competitors are embarrassed. Undefeated so far this season, she has established herself as the world's foremost female track star. At the National A.A.U. Championships in Los Angeles, she ran the 220-yd. dash in 22.6 sec., besting her own world record by one-tenth of a second. Last month the muscular (5 ft. 7½ in., 136 lb.) Chi set a world record of 10 sec. flat in the 100-yd. dash. Having posted the season's best marks in four different events, Chi finds...
...regulations to block social action. Last month the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered Michigan Consolidated Gas to abandon its housing projects. A subsidiary had built low-rent town houses in the Detroit ghetto and downtown apartments for the elderly and planned three more projects in other Michigan cities. The SEC acknowledged the "meritorious" nature of the program, but contended that it was the sort of outside activity forbidden by the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The Detroit News acidly pointed out that the act was supposed to prevent utility holding companies from using their clout to compete unfairly in nonutility...
...consult two other doctors before acting. Opponents charged that this requirement would discriminate against the poor. It may also expose doctors to censure and disciplinary action by county medical societies in Hawaii, where abortion on demand is now legal, and in New York, where it becomes legal this week (sec preceding story...
...task force has drafted a bill that would make SIPC an almost purely industry self-regulating body. Under the industry's proposal, the insurance corporation would have twelve directors, but only two would be Government appointees; the others would be chosen by stock exchanges and industry associations. The SEC would have general authority to review SIPC operations, but at one point the industry draft specifies that there would be "no addition to" the SEC's regulatory powers...