Word: fishing
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From Russia with Love includes a healthy serving of such details, but now they are bound up in situations. For example, Bond recognizes a SPECTRE agent when the boor orders red wine with fish. The motorboat chase gains tremendously when an overhead shot reveals several SPECTRE boats closing in on Bond's boat from all directions. In this way the thrill of the speedboat becomes frosting rather than the cake itself...
...over to the municipal bus system, which, as it turned out, had far too few vehicles to handle the trade. The ban stranded thousands of commuters who had no other way to get to work. Lagos' streets were immediately jammed with baby-toting mammies lugging pails of smoked fish, fu-fu rolls and other pungently perishable delicacies to market in the 100° heat. The pedestrians were the only things moving. Angry maulers used their mammy wagons to blockade all entrances to the city, slashed the tires of the big municipal buses and pulled them across downtown intersections...
...soon learned the truth: in its life cycle, the sockeye swims out around the Aleutian islands for more than 3,000 miles in an elliptical course that brings it right into Japanese nets. The Japanese have been catching so many that alarmed U.S. conservationists have cut back on sockeye fishing off the U.S. coasts to leave enough fish to spawn...
These developments have incensed U.S. fishermen, who argue that Bristol Bay sockeye are American fish that have been studied and improved with $50 million in U.S. tax money. This year, the U.S. stands to lose more than in the past: the sockeye will number some 27 million, a five-year high. As the fish take the far turn home in the critical first three weeks of this month, the Japanese will probably net up to 7,000,000 of them. Since 12 million must be spared for spawning, this gives U.S. fishermen a chance at less than half the crop...
...fishing towns of northern Washington State and coastal Alaska, the sockeye salmon is more than just a fish. It is a recurring miracle, a gift of God, the source of steady jobs, paid-up bills, money in the bank, new boats. Each year the local fishing industry scoops up some 6,000,000 of the 2-ft.-long, silver-blue sockeye, which account for 20% of the area's $50 million salmon catch and fetch higher prices than the lower-grade chum and pink salmon. Last week U.S. fishermen bitterly fought a major threat to their prosperity, caused...