Word: fear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diverting as the front two sections of the drugstore have indeniably been, it is the rear of the drugstore for which you are destined, and which you fear. Beyond the Dr. Scholl's footpads, and beyond the tampons, Regular, Super and Super-Plus, deodorized or not--beyond the condoms and the contraceptive jellies, the final answer to the equation set up by the cosmetics), is the sick corner...
Guevara argued that the military schools have been controlled by the American military who have indoctrinated Bolivian officers with the fear of Communist dissent from within. The result, he said, is that the army is no longer "in agreement with the people...
Although residents of the Lesley area don't have to fear immediate expansion, neighbors have tried to set up some legislative "No Trespassing" signs anyway. Long-standing attempts at down-zoning--making the area harder to develop--succeeded last year. And an in-the-works ordinance to control institutional use of property may hit Lesley harder than Harvard...
...debris that it twice caught fire. Masses of dead alewives washed ashore in Lake Michigan, fouling beaches. Tangles of Cladophora, a smelly freshwater seaweed, clogged other beaches. Commercial fisheries, which had long flourished on the lakes, perhaps a bit too aggressively, began closing for lack of good fish and fear of DDT and mercury contamination...
That would benefit the U.S. steel indus try and the economy of several ports. But environmentalists fear that disruption of the lakes' whiter ice cover would cause damage to fish and plant life. The energy crisis has made state governments less resistant to suggestions that gas and oil explorations- with their potential for pollution- be undertaken in the Great Lakes basin. (Canada already takes natural gas from Lake Erie.) These problems are not insoluble, but they will require a subtlety of technology and policy quite different from the massive input of dollars that cured many of the lakes...