Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Many of those completions were short swing passes, but Foster did begin to find his receivers downfield near the end of the first half. His touchdown bomb to Bill Cravens in the third quarter was his first long completion since the Columbia game...
...would seem to have been avoiding disaster. In the first quarter, Chrysler lost only $29 million, rather than the $40 million that Wall Street had anticipated. In June it rounded up $800 million of bank credit over a hectic weekend-just in time to quiet rumors that holders of short-term notes would push the company down the same road that the Penn Central followed. Last week it reported a third-quarter net of $1.1 million, off 71% from a year earlier; that left a loss of $20 million for this year's first nine months...
...than these bumpy figures might indicate. Fourth-quarter sales are starting off stronger than at any time in Chrysler history and promise enough profit to haul the corporation into the black for the whole year. The company is now covering its costs well enough to make heavy repayments of short-term debt without drawing on its new lines of bank credit. Debt repayable within a year has shrunk from a mountainous $673 million last March to a manageable $369 million...
...great idea as a stunt in civil disobedience. But as a book, the balloon does not hold up quite so well, though it may fascinate people who daydream about becoming system saboteurs. Author Hatch has helped his story by including a fine short course on the myths and truths about jet planes, their noise and their impact on human beings. One old saw neatly skewered: the aviation industry's contention that man can adjust to any noise level. That is simply medically false. In response to such facts, sufferers of noise pollution can only sound a loud "Hear! Hear...
...distinguishing feature of the urban guerrilla, says Rubenstein, is that he is "short-circuiting" the classic concept of revolution. Theorists from Locke to Marx to Herbert Marcuse have always discussed revolution in terms of mass movements. The very vulnerability of the modern industrial world allows the urban terrorist to skip the painstaking, step-by-step process of organizing a mass revolutionary movement and then taking disruptive action...