Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse won. Late editions of the Los Angeles Times featured a lead story documenting a less-than-earth-shaking expose of the low standards for scuba-diving instruction, and the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune snagged readers with a seven-column head declaring: FEWER SPECIAL DEER PERMITS AVAILABLE. The Swing is a slightly manic but welcome return to normalcy after a grateful escape from the long hail of bulletins issuing from Washington. No news might even last long enough to become boring, though it would be imprudent, given the past decade or so, to count...
...future has so far been impossible. Now a University of Chicago research team reports that it has found a way, almost as simple as the hammer-and-knee-jerk reflex test, to do both. The test involves observing the patient's eye movements as he follows the swing of a pendulum...
...which will convene around Sept. 25. Meanwhile, the President and his aides are taking a new look at all sorts of policy proposals. Two old ideas resurfaced to make headlines last week: raise gasoline taxes 10? per gal., or $ 10 billion a year, to reduce energy consumption and help swing the federal budget toward a surplus; gradually lift price controls from domestic crude oil to further discourage energy use. Neither proposal is likely to be embraced by the President at a time when slowing price rises is his chief domestic concern, but the two do illustrate how wide-and controversial...
...boss, Klopman has been following the same strategy; among other things, he has been pushing the company's hosiery division to move faster in following a marketing swing out of department stores and into supermarkets and drugstores. In his first quarter as president, ended last June, Burlington posted profits of $27.5 million, about 20% above the same period last year. But the success has brought little harmony in the executive suite; with in a single week this summer, two executive vice presidents, Raymond E. Kassar and George L. Staff, abruptly resigned. Some 20 lesser executives have left or been...
...were finishing two miniaturized laboratories that will be able to test Martian soil for evidence of life. Next August, in the climax to NASA'S $1 billion Project Viking, two unmanned spacecraft will be fired aloft from Cape Canaveral. After an eleven-month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized package should touch down on July 4, 1976, near the mouth of a 3,000-mile-long gorge that cuts across...