Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour of shouting have done for the November Action Committee. Though the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (and the Committee on Houses before it) continually met the request for rebates to students eating at Hillel House with rejections and postponements but not results, the CHUL responded with lightning speed to the NAC's demand for rebates, its promise "to fight for this program, with whatever means are needed," and its demonstration at University Hall on Monday, April 13. The Committee seems to be encouraging the use of force as a good way of getting things done. Is this conducive...
...unnamed man in tennis shoes: Starusch's dentist. Starusch has an overshot underjaw. Pain and multiple appointments are involved. Along with other local anaesthetics, the dentist maintains a diversionary TV set on his wall. As a modern opiate it is not far behind Novocain and the ultra-high-speed drill...
...crew on only a few days' notice, shot over 120 hours of footage, then edited it all down in a frantic seven months. It is no small tribute to Wadleigh's dexterity that the film's three-hour running time passes with the mesmerizing speed of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. There could comfortably be even more. Using such intricate optical effects as split screen, overlapping and double framing, Wadleigh has expanded and enriched the original musical performances so that, in many cases, they seem to be almost superhuman...
Williamson quickly escorted Bowie down Church Street toward the Post Office. They were followed closely by ten demonstrators. When someone stopped his car near Mt. Anburn Street to give Bowie a ride to safety, four demonstrators rode on top of the car until it picked up speed...
...prime-rate cut should speed this movement. The rate is one of the most important in the money markets. Although only the biggest and most creditworthy U.S. corporations get the prime rate, other business-loan rates are keyed to it, and it affects some nonbusiness loan charges too. Many pension funds, for example, lend to their members at a point or two above the prime rate. It also has great psychological importance as a closely watched indicator of credit tightness or ease. When it fell last week, rates also dropped in the bond markets, and buyers crowded in. Stock market...