Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assimilating them. Many were blacks or people of mixed blood who were born in Africa. The majority of the whites had originally been dirt farmers from the impoverished north of Portugal; they had emigrated to Angola in the hope of a better life. Although few got rich, most had deep roots in Africa. Many of the refugees found it extremely difficult to adjust to a Portugal that was still in the throes of the post-Salazar transition to democracy and a mixed economy. Jobs, housing and schooling were scarce: thousands still live in wretched urban shantytowns...
...problem of too many empty seats. While it was a boon to the industry, whose planes have been setting records in passenger loadings (63% of capacity) and earnings (expected to be about $1 billion this year), the summer of the discounts was also a season of horrendous delays and deep discontent for the carriers' staple customer, the crowd-weary, briefcase-toting business man or woman. As one American Airlines executive described the universal gripe: "They told us that they were disappointed, and that they weren't being treated as well as they should...
Among the energy optimists, the rosiest view is offered by Dutch Economist Peter Odell, who has concluded that world oil reserves, including deposits in deep sea areas and the polar regions, stand at 4,500 billion bbl., or seven times current proven reserves. That is also well above the Rand Corp.'s estimate, which puts the reserves within a range of 1,700 billion bbl. to 2,300 billion bbl. Odell argues that the size of some known fields has been greatly underrated, notably the North Sea and Orinoco Oil Belt, whose resources he believes are even "greater than...
Henry Fonda is one of the very few actors who could dive into this two-inch-deep pool of a play and emerge from it with an Olympic gold medal. A frothy freshet of one-liners does not keep most of this stultifyingly shallow play from being poisonously dull...
...been a little colder in Hanover, N.H. Saturday, the Harvard field hockey team might have played a different game--on skates. But cleats were the attire of the day, as the Crimson slogged through ankle-deep puddles in the rain, finally suffering a frustrating 2-1 loss to the Big Green at Dartmouth...