Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer as Energy Secretary. He just hasn't got the touch for Congress, and I think he has reached his limitation. Schlesinger has given us the cosmetics of an energy plan. Somebody has got to tell Schlesinger, "All right, you've got your 55-mile-an-hour speed limit, you've got your natural gas bill-that's about all you've got, but no production anywhere, no new resources that are coming in." You show me an energy czar who is not going to plan for production, and he's no czar...
...protocol: How to seat the husband and two ex-husbands of the bride's mother at the wedding banquet? How to invite a homosexual couple for the weekend? There were few rules that applied to other new customs, such as living in coed dorms, coed jogging (should the man speed ahead of the woman?) and social soaking in hot tubs (keep eye contact at all times...
...world by taking the same post at troubled Chrysler Corp., Lee Iacocca, 54, sat down with TIME Correspondents Barrett Seaman and Paul Witteman to muse about his new job and his industry. Iacocca's conversation is pure stream of consciousness, leaping from topic to topic at machine-gun speed; it is also refreshingly blunt and unencumbered by modesty. Excerpts: ON WHY HE CHOSE HIS NEW EMPLOYER: I had many offers to be chief executive of big [nonauto] companies. But when I was 14 decided to go into the auto business. [At Princeton University] I went for a master...
...companies are leaping into action. Israel's Egged Bus Cooperative is preparing a Tel Aviv-Cairo trip for $6 one way. El Al hopes to start regular air service between the two cities. Shipping operators are planning a car-ferry service between Haifa or Ashdod and Port Said. To speed these plans, Israeli tourist officials have been trying to confer with their Egyptian counterparts at various international meetings...
...Yale's speed will test the Crimson defense. If the backs can hold tough in the early going, the offense will hopefully pick up where it left off last week...