Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe has proved that even $1-a-gal. gasoline need not curtail car sales so long as the cars are small and economical enough. The number of cars owned by each 1,000 Italians multiplied from 18 in 1955 to 188 in 1970. In the U.S., once the initial shock of the gasoline shortage is over and Detroit has completed its conversion to smaller cars (there will always be a limited market for larger cars), motorists may well drive as many miles as the one trillion they logged in 1972, while still significantly reducing total gasoline consumption...
Carrero Blanco's assassination came as a severe shock to Franco, who for years had counted on him as his right-hand man. The Generalissimo had expected the dour admiral to keep Spain on a rightward course when he himself died and to make certain that his successor as chief of state, Prince Juan Carlos, did not fall prey to liberal ideas. But Carrero Blanco's rigid orthodoxy had made the possibility of violence as predictable as his timetable...
Since the March 1970 Resolution was adopted, the CRR has operated without student representatives. Students brought before the CRR faced faculty members--not their peers--and a process of justice that would shock the most conservative jurist...
...CALL THEM bandits is just plain wrong--the real bandits in South America wear army uniforms or conservative business suits. To protest that they are unnecessarily violent ignores the violence that produced them--the hunger and poverty as well as the police forces and the electric shock tortures. And to romanticize them as modern Robin Hoods belittles the seriousness of their political strategy and disregards the changes in South American society that have called that strategy into being...
...difficult to find the reason. Hockey has expanded faster than any other professional team sport-so fast that it is still in a state of shock. The N.H.L. has grown from six to 16 teams since 1967. The rival W.H.A. added another twelve. Staffing 22 new teams required increasing the number of pro skaters, more than 90% of whom are reared in Canada, from about 100 to more than 500. Finding so many first-class prospects in hockey's existing farm system proved impossible...