Word: depths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September, International Harvester, the city's second-largest employer, decided to reduce production drastically, scuttling 1,500 jobs over the next year. But the loss was a "cloud with a silver lining of great depth," insists Mayor Winfield Moses, who helped launch a spirited campaign to diversify the city's economy, save and expand existing businesses and lure new industry. Moses created the city's first economic development department. Taking advantage of publicity about the flood, the department has begun inviting companies to locate in "the city that saved itself." Bids are soon...
...effect has been devastating. At least 50% of the soil has oxidized and eroded, in some places exposing the barren lime rock. Buried septic tanks on Lake Okeechobee's shores have surfaced. The lake itself has receded, from a depth of 17 ft. in the 1960s to 9 ft. last year. Alligators have lost most of their eggs to artificial flooding in three of the past five years. Flooding also led to the deaths of 5,000 deer last year. The region's spectacular wading birds, many of them rarities, are equally threatened. Wood storks, for example, have...
...life. The discovery of the X ray in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen opened the first window into the living body and inaugurated a new age in medicine. But anyone who has ever glanced at an X-ray film can perceive its Limitations. The picture gives little sense of depth, and while bones show up crisply enough, many of the softer tissues of the body are fuzzy shadows in shades of gray...
...Karen Black as Joann. These women, along with the rest of the case, imbue their roles with an energetic magnetism that makes us want to know everything that has brought them to this reunion. These performances not only crane stereotypic responses to Dennis, Cher, and Black but reveal amazing depth--overcoming the possibility for shallow interpretations from the seeming narrowness of the plot...
...diplomatic correspondent, House hopes to continue adding new countries to her area of expertise--particularly European countries since up until now she has covered almost exclusively the Middle East. A knowledge of the affairs of these countries will enable her to write with more depth about many issues. "In journalism, it's so easy to become compartmentalized. But the world we are writing about is growing more and more interdependent...