Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moves announced than finance men began huddling with their lawyers, looking for ways to circumvent the new rules. Reports TIME'S European economic correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer from Brussels: "The game of the week is finding loopholes in the Fed's effort to keep Eurodollars out of the U.S. Like water finding the same level in connected containers, an ocean of money can flow through even the smallest opening...
During a two-hour meeting with the Governors, Carter discussed the West's criticisms of his efforts to block certain major water projects, push large-scale synthetic fuels development, and station a new MX mobile missile system in Nevada and Utah. He agreed that the Governors should have veto power over where synfuel plants are to be placed in their states, that a Westerner should sit on the proposed Energy Security Corporation if Congress approves its creation, and that the states should get federal help if large numbers of either synfuel or missile construction workers should flood particular localities...
Even some of the "defensive research" is starting to pay off. Last week the 3M Co. introduced a lithograph printing plate that uses nonpolluting tap water instead of chemical developers to produce an image. General Motors' new zinc-nickel oxide battery pack-which can be completely recharged 300 times and will power a car for 100 miles-cost $33 million and took ten years to develop, but it has now opened up for the first time the possibility of a practical, mass-produced electric...
Serpentine moves like a snake on water, slithering from incident to crime, pausing just long enough to consider its prey. Thompson has done extensive research on his subject, and quotes liberally from other people's remembrances, letters and other documents. But he doesn't let the facts obscure the phenomenon. Admittedly Thompson goes overboard with the dramatics at times. He delights in ominous tag lines, affixed to long stretches of narrative. As Charles ponders life in a Dehli jail cell. Thompson writes about his future. He required "a country in which he was neither known nor wanted by police...
...Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata) have committed suicide. The irony, however, is that for the leading literary figure in Japan, Abe's writing has a remarkably Western flavor. Except for place names and a few distinctly oriental metaphors ("his thoughts shrank like a piece of fat meat plunged into boiling water"), Secret Rendezvous. Abe's sixth and most recent book could pass, like his others, for a Western novel...