Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long Americans have blithely assumed that rivers of cheap energy would flow through that economy like a magic elixir in endless abundance. But as 1979 has vividly demonstrated, the nation takes extreme risks if it does not curb its addiction to demon crude...
...would choose the European-made Airbus A310. But then Boeing, the apparent loser, put its flaps up and accelerated. The Seattle company dispatched E.H. ("Tex") Boullioun, president of its commercial airplane operation, to TWA headquarters in Manhattan. Boullioun improved Boeing's terms and worked some blue-yonder magic...
...mention what the fight was all about: control of the machine. Nineteen committeemen rose to endorse him. The most impassioned was Ed Kelly who, as president of the Chicago Park District, controls 3,000 jobs that Byrne has been trying to snatch away. "The Daley name is still magic," cried Kelly. "There are many lOUs in this room, lOUs that we owe to Richard Daley...
...Faculty Council members agreed this week that "4" is now the magic number that must appear on Harvard students' Advanced Placement exams to prove the students qualify for Sophomore Standing...
After Norma Barton and Kathleen McCloskey finished one-two in the 100 yard butterfly, putting Harvard over the magic 66 point mark, the meet was all over. In fact, one anonymous team member asked, "Can't we go home...