Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding on the support of her own centrist Liberals, plus a loose coalition of Christian Democrats, British Conservatives and French Gaullists, France's Veil won her post on the second ballot, with 192 out of the 377 valid votes cast. Two leftist candidates, Italian Socialist Mario Zagari and Italian Communist Giorgio Amendola, went down to defeat with 138 and 47 votes respectively. Veil's victory thus demonstrated the effective dominance of the center-right parties in the Parliament, whose members were picked in direct elections throughout the nine European Community countries last month...
...vision of these projects is all the more appealing in light of the immediate economic gloom. The Commerce Department reported last week that the gross national output of goods and services dropped at a 3.3% annual rate during the second quarter, meaning that the recession has almost certainly begun. G. William Miller, the Treasury Secretary-designate, also warned that the energy aggravated slump would be deeper and longer than the mild slowdown of six to nine months that the Administration has so far forecast. Miller's projections: unemployment rising from last month...
...work, trying to stabilize a sight in an unpredictable frequency of marks, is all concentration. Supremely honest, unrhetorical painting, it breathes the air of scrupulous anxiety. He has a surer sense of tone-the visual equivalent of natural pitch-than anyone else painting today, and color is second to it; his images are not meant to soothe or win the eye but to build up a record of their action through a labyrinth of nuances. For this reason, a painting like Anne Leaning on a Table, 1977, is as bracing as it is modest. A high stamina of observation...
...sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping more than a second off the 1977 record held by Cuba's Alberto Juantorena...
Approaching the final quarter, he was second, almost shoulder to shoulder with Scott and seven yards ahead of the field. At that point, he recounted, "I said to myself: 'Now or never!' " Then came a burst of speed that seemed to leave his rivals frozen. He swept to the lead to finish 15 yards ahead of Scott, whose time of 3:51.11 was only .01 of a second slower than Jim Ryun's 1967 American record. The next eight runners all came in under...