Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa del Sol is referred to sarcastically as "Miami Beach East...
Fame introduces Strauss to the celebrated ("I admire your versatility, Offenbach") and the notorious, in the person of Jetty Treffz (Mary Costa), described by Johann's sister-in-law as "the woman who has been scandalizing Vienna." They marry, and Mother's resistance is quieted when she learns that Jetty is not a common gulden-digger after all. There is some nastiness about Jetty's illegitimate son and Johann's trifling with coarse café singers. All comes right at the end, however, to the strains of The Blue Danube and the assurance of a subtitle...
...decade, enabling millions of middle-and low-income people who could not otherwise afford air travel to jet off to vacation spots at amazingly low package rates. Typical enticements: Londoners can buy a threeday, all-expense trip to Moscow this winter for $71 or spend four days on the Costa Brava in Spain for $34; Danes can fly to Rome for a week on $92, including hotel and two meals daily, or to the Canary Islands on a similar plan...
Fund Failure. Apparently the voters of three Bay Area counties-San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa -thought so in 1962, when they approved a $792 million bond issue to fund construction. BART was intended to order growth more rationally than new highways on the theory that development follows a rail system's route while highways are usually built wherever anyone develops the land. Beyond that, the planners argued that BART would allow poor citydwellers to get to new industrial jobs in the booming suburbs. But what really explained the vote, cynics say, was that most motorists simply hoped that...
...whether they will accept the loss of income brought about by U.S. withdrawal, or try to invade the American market. Then there is the worrisome fact that to be cultivated profitably, the opium poppy needs only a warm climate and cheap labor. Poppy plantings have recently been spotted in Costa Rica and high in the Andes in Ecuador and Peru...