Word: beaching
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...wasteful effect of these subsidies is not widely understood. Many outsiders, as well as most locals surveyed by the Western Governors' Association, falsely believe the region would have sufficient water if only profligate cities like Newport Beach, Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz., made do with fewer swimming pools and car washes. Rather than match supply to demand by steeply raising water rates, most political leaders merely exhort residents to take shorter showers and flush toilets less often. Los Angeles will soon spend $600,000 broadcasting such bromides...
From sagas to satires, from mysteries to short stories, a hamper of summer reading for the beach, backyard and porch...
That advice, so far, has been to pursue the strategies used in the much-publicized Howard Beach case, in which a gang of white thugs chased a Black man to his death: incite the Black community to an uproar over the lack of justice for Black victims; use the media to publicize the case; and refuse to cooperate with the system until a special prosecutor is appointed to handle the case...
These strategies were effective in the Howard Beach case. Governor Mario Cuomo appointed a special prosecutor who succeeded in obtaining convictions against the white thugs. A measure of justice was apparently served...
UNLIKE, Howard Beach, when it was all too apparent a crime had been committed, the Brawley case is very likely a fraud...