Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Talmadge has conceded some irregularities; indeed, he has offered to repay the Senate $37,000 in expense money that he grants was improperly drawn. But he blames the improprieties on confusion and sloppy bookkeeping by his office staff. He insists that he did not even know until last summer that the Riggs bank account existed...
...military juntas. For a time, it seemed the vote in Ecuador might never take place. Fearing that Roldós, a protégé of Asaad Bucaram, an abrasive populist who founded the Concentration of Popular Forces Party (C.F.P.), would follow up his first-place finish in last summer's preliminary balloting with a victory, the military men who have ruled Ecuador since 1972 delayed the runoff for more than six months. That allowed the conservatives who opposed Roldós to mount a scare campaign that implied his election would turn Ecuador into a Marxist state like...
...would be "the force of change." Not a fiery speaker, his methodical rhetoric came across well on television broadcasts that played an important role in the campaign. Though married to Bucaram's niece, he distanced himself from his radical mentor by scrapping the slogan he used last summer: ROLDÓS IN OFFICE, BUCARAM IN POWER. Roldós' moderate image won over the small but growing middle class. He gained the support of poor peasants and Indians (33% of the population) by pledging to include them in the modest prosperity produced by the export...
...their retail outlets on a monthly basis, usually 90% or 95% of what the stations sold during the same month of 1978. Last week Texaco, Sun oil, Union and Exxon tightened their allocations still further, in the case of Exxon to 80% of the 1978 level. Thus, as summer progresses, drivers will find it increasingly difficult to buy gas toward the end of each month as service stations...
...becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning that the car, or perhaps the listener, is overheating...