Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That might be enough at present, and abrupt deregulation might be too great a shock to consumers. But drillers searching for hard-to-get gas need the assurance that perhaps two or three years from now the market rather than the regulators will set the price...
...shock waves are being felt in Washington. Youngstown Mayor Jack Hunter, Ohio Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum and a hastily formed caucus of Congressmen representing steel communities urged President Carter to formulate a national policy to help the steel industry. Imports, especially from Japan, have badly hurt the domestic industry. At week's end five busloads of steelworkers from Sheet & Tube demonstrated at the White House and on Capitol Hill, carrying signs like STEEL VALLEY TURNING TO GHOST TOWN. What most of the protesters want are quotas on imported steel and an easing of the antipollution rules that...
...days when cholera was fatal in 50% of cases or more have long passed. (Before 1930, for example, cholera epidemics in India regularly took more than 300,000 lives a year.) Physicians now know that the shock and threat of quick death from cholera result from the massive loss of body fluid-as much as several gallons a day-through diarrhea. They can prescribe antibiotics, especially tetracycline, which may shorten the duration of the diarrhea. The dehydration can also be reversed, and the patient rehydrated, with a simple solution containing common salt, baking soda, potassium chloride and glucose...
Then there is Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar. As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Ressner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars. Watching her is a shock for viewers who associate her shy and awkward manner with Annie Hall. She is on-screen for well over two hours while her character disintegrates in the direction of alienation and death...
...lives they say, "Oh, you live at the Y? That's the pits." Pantano added that the atmosphere where he lives is not quite what he had expected at Northeastern. He said when he asked the desk clerk if there was a cigarette machine, the clerk said in shock, "Son, this is the YMCA...