Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UNHCR Director Angelo Rasanayagam: "We take the necessary measures to those who refuse an offer. We explain the realities. We disabuse them of their illusions." Explains one volunteer caseworker who quit a Hong Kong refugee program in disgust: "Those who refuse are told they'll go to the bottom of the list or be sent back to Viet Nam. If these people were really numbers the job wouldn't be so hard. But they're human, and everyone wants to go to America...
...incongruous sight. Two miles offshore from the hotel-lined beachfront, two giant dredges toil away round the clock, scooping up tons of sand from the ocean bottom. Heavy, 27-in. pipes carry the grayish slurry to the beach. There it is deposited in large, neat mounds, until the fresh sand is spread out by large earth-moving machines. Under way for two years, the controversial $64 million project by the Army Corps of Engineers is aimed at nothing less than saving one of the nation's vacation landmarks: that fabled stretch of the Florida Gold Coast known as Miami...
Despite his place in the family dynasty, Otis Chandler learned the business from the bottom up. After he returned from the Korean War, his hard-driving mother, Buff Chandler, now 78 and still the grande dame of the Los Angeles cultural establishment, gave him one weekend off, then started him on a seven-year grind that took him from the mail room to the city room. Chandler is quick to deny any implication that he is his mother's masterpiece: "Her influence on the paper since I've been publisher has not been significant...
...capabilities; William Clements the new Governor of Texas, for his program to try to rebuild free enterprise in his state; William Simon for his important book, A Time for Truth; and Comedian George Burns,, who at 83 is proving that all of the sugar in life is in the bottom...
When the Red Sox dropped a five-run lead to the Indians last August, to lose 8-7, Carlton Fisk said, "You have to expect it from them almost. They're as scrappy as a club can be. Of course, they always come here at the bottom of the standings, and when we play the Cleveland Indians, you know they've got nothing to lose...