Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Administration was only a few weeks old when Moore had earned a reputation for not returning Congressmen's phone calls. In October he was criticized for not warning key congressional backers of Israel that a joint U.S.-Soviet declaration on the Middle East was in the works. At...
Rescue operations soon became entangled in politics. The state government is still controlled by the Congress Party, but Prime Minister Morarji Desai's Janata Party hopes to capture it in elections next February. Inevitably, there were charges from New Delhi that the state had been negligent in failing to...
For some firemen, picket duty took second place to heroic professionalism in the face of sudden danger. When troopers failed to check a blaze spreading through London's St. Andrew's Hospital, six strikers donned breathing equipment and rushed into the burning building. "For God's sake...
During the weekend, 5 in. of rain had fallen on Toccoa ("beautiful place" in the Cherokee language). The swollen, 50-acre-wide lake at the head of the valley burst the earthen dam, which had been built in 1901 and enlarged in 1937. Said Ron Farnsworth, whose trailer was on...
Those improvements alone would cost $36.5 million. The Bureau of Reclamation has petitioned for funding, and the OMB is expected to act on the request later this month. But it is up to Congress, not the Executive Branch, to provide the money to confront the problem adequately. With another disaster...