Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kraft was a logical choice. He had known Kissinger for years and had been a student of China since his World War II days as a cryptographer in the Pacific. He had been to the country five times before, and over the years had turned out a stream of China-related columns and one book, The Chinese Difference (1973). "It's still pretty good," says Kraft. "I didn't go ape on the Chinese or the new Maoist man or anything like that...
...tradition, Memorial Day starts the American summer. Beaches, amusement parks, resorts welcome their biggest crowds since the previous Labor Day. The roads are jammed with city families streaming out to picnic areas or campgrounds. Next weekend, however, the stream may be more of a trickle, and some who venture forth may even be stranded, unable to find a gas station that will fill their tanks for the haul back home. Memorial Day could mark the point when the gasoline shortage of 1979 starts to hurt nationwide-and when Americans finally realize that the nation's growing addiction to undependable...
Pompan paused a second, then finished his non-stop stream of monologue. "I just hope," he said, "that the bubble doesn't burst before I get there...
...bigger benefit of decontrol will come from increased domestic production. When prices are free to climb to the world level, domestic output is likely to rise as companies pump more oil out of existing wells that are now uneconomical to keep on stream. The battle between Carter and the oil industry over his windfall profits tax concerns whether decontrol will also lead to increased exploration and drilling of new wells that will raise production. The President has repeatedly hit the industry with the charge that oilmen will just pocket the profits from decontrol. Even under existing price controls, however...
...like The Betsy and The Boys from Brazil became memorable in his hands: Who could forget his parody of a Midwestern accent in the former or his rapturous cigarette smoking in the latter? Olivier is such a sly devil that he could make his Oscar acceptance speech, a riotous stream of sheer poppycock, sound as though it were a Shakespearean soliloquy. As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night...