Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fearful that the flood of refugees would only complicate the defense of Saigon and probably bring countless infiltrators in its wake, the government tried to seal off the capital. The road leading from Vung Tau was blockaded, and plans were afoot to resettle refugees in the Mekong Delta. But little was being done to provide food and shelter for the throngs at Vung Tau or even regroup the disbanded soldiers when they arrived...
COLORADO'S RICHARD LAMM. Coloradans were braced for a flood of legislation to protect the environment when Democrat Lamm, 39, was elected. But the onslaught never came. Lamm has been too busy trying to protect the state's surplus, which for fiscal 1976 has dwindled from an anticipated $80 million to a mere $11 million; the total budget is $1.8 billion. Lamm has upset the state's teachers by increasing the educational budget less than his Republican predecessor did last year. To provide tax relief, especially for the poor, he has proposed a general income...
...children's art center needed a ceramics teacher, the camping assocation was looking for exra counselors, and for office help to cope with a flood of applications. The...Red Cross was looking for volunteers for their blood-donor room. A neighborhood settlement house needed a group woker...
Kissinger occasionally catnaps on one of two bunks in the green stateroom he is sharing on this shuttle with Wife Nancy. From time to time he consults a fat blue looseleaf notebook crammed with constantly updated bargaining positions, options and alternatives, or studies the flood of incoming "Tosec" or outgoing "Secto" cables (550 in the first week of the latest shuttle) that pass in code between his Air Force jet and Washington. Kissinger steadfastly refuses to use a telephone. "I won't talk on the phone," he barked at an aide who suggested an airborne call...
...resolution urging the board to "actively promote" economic recovery by "substantially" increasing growth in the money supply. In hearings before Proxmire's Senate committee last week, Burns protested that the 8%-to-10% growth rate urged by many liberal economists would be "dangerous"; he worries that pumping a flood of money into the economy could cause another upward surge in inflation. Burns also suggested that Congress would be mistaken to try to enact legislation to "limit the flexibility" of the board in determining monetary policy...