Word: zooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon resigned, the stock market would plummet, the value of the dollar would nosedive, America's international image would be more battered, the risks of worldwide confrontations would zoom...
...cost of canned goods is all but certain to zoom. Canners started the processing season this summer with inventories at their lowest ebb in 20 years -vegetable items totaled 23 million cases, down from 50 million in 1970. With this year's vegetable-and fruit-canning season almost over, the National Canners Association reports that although there were supply increases, they fell below amounts considered minimal to meet demand. Peaches, apricots, apple products, tomatoes, peas and some varieties of corn will all be short and more expensive...
...first boot. Today, time-outs are given for a sound athletic reason - the sponsors need time to air their messages. (Those sponsors tackle each other for the privilege of paying up to $70,000 for a one-minute, Sunday afternoon commercial.) The networks, with their zeppelins and zoom lenses, their dreamlike instant replays of color and violence, have changed football watching from a remote college pastime to something very much like voyeurism...
...ranking champion and brash newcomer of the field, alone account for an estimated 20% of U.S. magazine newsstand sales. From college dormitories to Army barracks, they are now a standard bit of Americana. To the obvious delight of the magazines' readership, their photographers seem locked in battle to zoom in on ever more explicit poses and privacies...
...story extravaganza including a 1,050-seat theater located below ground level; twelve floors of shops, meeting rooms and restaurants; and above it all, a 37-story-high, wide-open "atrium" around which 2,020 rooms will be arrayed. Through the cavernous atrium, twelve spaceship-like glass elevators will zoom to a bronzed-glass rooftop penthouse containing a cocktail lounge and a revolving restaurant...