Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wait & See. Britain's addition to the EEC would produce an instant G.N.P. jump of one-third, and an increase in the Common Market to 235 million people. Nor is that all: Denmark, Ireland and Norway among Britain's European Free Trade Association partners are queueing up right behind London to join the EEC. Of the other EFTA Seven, Austria already has in its application for association, Sweden and Switzerland are likely to apply, and only backward Portugal will be condemned to watch the rush toward a uniting Europe from the sidelines...
...patent laws Abbott had exclusive rights to the manufacture and sale of Nembutol for 17 years. During that time it could charge whatever the traffic would bear since there was no competition. Abbott also sent out detail men--salesmen that all drug companies hire to promote their brands. "They wait around the teaching hospitals especially," Burack says, but detail men visit doctors too. The average physician receives one a week, touting the latest cures and "keeping them up to date," Burack says...
...were three jet-capable runways in South Viet Nam. Today there are 14. In April 1965, there were 15 airfields that could take C-130 transport aircraft. We now have 89. Then, there was one deepwater port for seagoing ships. Now there are seven. In 1965, ships had to wait weeks to unload. We now turn them around in as little as one week. A year ago, there was no long-haul highway transport. Last month alone, 160,000 tons of supplies were moved over the highways. During the last year, the mileage of essential highways open...
...crowds. With decent weather few things can be more pleasant than a seat by Lake Quinsigamond. People get thrown into the lake; some who are not so fortunate plunge in on their own. And above all, crews finish at fifteen minute intervals. There is no chilling half-hour wait for the next race as there is at Charles River regattas...
...about 3 o'clock the crew leaves the motel. Dressed for the race already, they have nothing to do but wait around the back of the boat-house, watching the other crews leave until it is their turn...