Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freezing prices would only create shortages for everyone, because demand for the fuel would once again surge and the Government would wind up having to allocate supplies, just as with gasoline last summer. Washington would be wiser to quit looking for scapegoats and start enacting production-boosting programs that will bring more fuel of all sorts-solar, hydroelectric, synthetic and nuclear-to market, and at an affordable cost...
This time around the Halvonik case will probably wind up as a scriptwriter might have composed it. One day after his arrest, by pure coincidence, the California Supreme Court let stand a San Diego appellate court's ruling that police use of such devices as the Bushnell Spacemaster to gather evidence is unconstitutional, an Orwellian breach of a citizen's right to privacy. Thus Halvonik and his wife could be acquitted, leaving him free either to stay on the bench or to return to private practice and defend exactly the kind of case in which...
...into 55-gal. drums. To the infiltrators the plant appeared "sloppier and worse than anticipated," Babbitt said. Company officials retorted that the hubbub was "like a Nazi camp in there." They called Babbitt's action "absolutely crazy" and accused him of having chosen "to throw law to the wind...
KILL FOUR, FIVE or maybe even ten people and you're liable to wind up in a peck of trouble. David Berkowitz found that such actions are likely to generate reams of negative publicity...
Sports activites on Beacon St. wind down as the crowd grows. Earlier, tall men on roller skates careened down the steep hill, in and out between the barrels. The yellow cord now makes that impossible, and anyway, it's getting time to start thinking about serious things, like jockeying for position inside the Common. "As soon as you get in there, spread out," Elkhorn advises. "Take up as much room...