Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four counties in Washington and Oregon put into effect an emergency preparedness plan, devised in 1970, that calls for erecting a command post to coordinate emergency power needs at a remodeled bomb shelter in the Kelly Butte area of Portland. The Red Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost...
Though I lack Mr. Ferrara's impressive command of statistics, the six weeks I spent this summer working on a California ranch assured me not only that labor camps still exist, but that the conditions in at least one of them are appealing...
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law. Watergate and My Lai are two of the hardest cases in recent American history, for each is freighted with immense emotional and symbolic meaning. Each involves trial of subordinates while the crime may lie higher up the chain of command. The My Lai massacre became a paradigm of everything that went wrong with the American venture in Viet Nam. Enemies of U.S. policy seized upon the event to dramatize their case. The Army, anxious to protect its name, sought to isolate the tragedy and its participants as untypical of military performance...
Besides attempting to quiet Washington's fears about Portugal's change in command, Costa Gomes last week also asked Washington's help in bolstering the Portuguese economy, which is bedeviled by an inflation rate of 30% a year and the return from Africa of thousands of jobless ex-colonists. Washington is likely to be sympathetic. Not only does it want Portugal to keep its newfound democracy, but it also wants to maintain the vital U.S. air base in the Azores. During the October war in the Middle East, Portugal was the only European country that openly cooperated...
...time does Brassai treat his sitters as objects of derision or freaks. His pimps and prostitutes are denizens of a bizarre twilight world but within this world they have dignity and command respect. Bijou stares at the camera forthrightly, without embarrassment or shame. When Brassai does choose to comment, it is most likely to be in the form of a juxtaposition of incongruous images--a derelict lying on the pavement under a huge advertisement for salad dressing or a close up of the large and powerful hind quarters of a horse cleaved by a gaily braided tail...