Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenge comes from Chemical Engineer Thomas J. Boyle, who did his work at Arizona's Lowell Observatory. Eager to verify the Club of Rome's claims-which were widely publicized by Dennis Meadows in his controversial Limits to Growth-Boyle obtained copies of the original computer programs for a study of his own. The programs are, in effect, mathematical instructions or models for the computer. In the case of the M.I.T. study, they were used to show the close relationship between such variable factors as availability of cheap energy and agricultural land, birth control measures and mineral resources...
...offered $1,000,000 for her property, which is near a new highway and has access to municipal sewer and water systems. The 64% of American families who own houses have seen their homes appreciate an average 14% a year just since 1970. Meanwhile, prices of godforsaken Arizona desert land are rising right along with choice commercial plots in cities. Land is being bought and sold with almost no regard for its usefulness...
...City, Ariz., has drawn 28,000 residents (average age: 67) to a tract 16 miles northwest of Phoenix. It has enough athletic and recreation facilities to train an Olympic team: seven golf courses, four tennis courts, six lawn-bowling greens, a 16-lane bowling alley, Arizona's first indoor, air-conditioned shuffleboard courts, two artificial lakes and a 7,500-seat amphitheater for plays and concerts...
Ever since the Government report linking smoking with cancer and heart disease was first published in 1964, doctors and public health officials have waged a steady war against cigarettes. Now their efforts seem to be increasing. Last month Arizona became the first state to take legal action against tobacco by banning smoking in public places. Britain's Health Education Council, meanwhile, turned to shock tactics in its campaign against cigarettes. It released a poster showing a child dragging on a cigarette as he perched in his high chair. Its message: when a child breathes air filled with cigarette smoke...
...Both the Arizona action and the British poster may help protect non-smokers from cigarette pollution. But if the experience of Columnist Joseph Alsop is any indication, neither is likely to have much impact on those now addicted to nicotine. Alsop, who is struggling to kick a four-pack-a-day habit, wrote earlier this month that matters requiring calculation, learning and judgment became "inordinately difficult or downright impossible" without the comfort of tobacco. Scores of readers wrote to tell him that they, too, suffered from what Alsop called the "incompetence syndrome," and were unable to do almost everything from...