Word: anas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Already the U.S., the pioneer in such matters, is losing some of its traditional reverence for punctuality. America's airlines are beginning to follow the lead of the nation's railroads in operating on almost Oriental time schedules. Appliance repairmen are as devoted to the mañana principle as Mexican peons: department stores promise delivery of goods in weeks rather than days; the Post Office makes the Pony Express seem like the very model of rapid transit. The wait for a dial tone or an operator can be a foretaste of purgatory. For some parts of industry...
...beach at Corona del Mar, Calif., the Rev. Chuck Smith recently held another of the mass baptisms that have made his Calvary Chapel at Santa Ana famous. Under a setting sun, several hundred converts waded into the cold Pacific, patiently waiting their turn for the rite. On the cliffs above, hundreds more watched. Most...
...since wind-borne woes afflict millions of people on several continents. Italy suffers each year from the effects of the sirocco, France from the mistral, the Alpine regions from the foehn. Chinook winds bring a touch of seeming madness to the Rocky Mountain area each winter, and the Santa Ana wind makes thousands of Californians miserable. Sulman's experiments show that this misery may be lessened...
Environmental Action has ana national contest for suggesting tactics which can be used by "concerned citizens to stop corporations or institutions from polluting, exploiting or otherwise threatening the survival of the earth and its inhabitants...
...often shines, or near water. Half the U.S. now lives within 50 miles of a seacoast or the Great Lakes. The fast gainers in the 1960s were middle-sized metropolitan areas (pop. 700,000 to 2,000,000) in California, Arizona and Texas. Among them: Anaheim-Santa Ana, up 100.2%; San Jose, up 65%; Phoenix, up 45%; San Bernardino-Riverside, up 39%; and Houston...