Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some better-equipped centers (e.g., Fort Worth, Denver, Kansas City), a computer is also keeping its unblinking eye on the action. If two of the little boxes come within two minutes of each other on a collision course, the computer, keeping track of the heading and speed, makes both data blocks start blinking to alert the controller...
Still, there are airports that even the most demanding pilots do not fault. In the U.S., according to a TIME survey taken last week, airline captains prefer Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Miami and Dulles International outside Washington, D.C., because they are uncongested and have wide spaces between runways and taxiways. They also have excellent air traffic control and emergency equipment. Abroad, pilots like London's Heathrow, Amsterdam's Schipol, Paris' De Gaulle and the Frankfurt airport. These fields, like their American counterparts, have the best lighting, communications and radar equipment available...
...keep down the dust. Trouble was that some of the fuel, a solvent, was heavily contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a class of highly toxic chemicals that have been implicated in birth defects and nervous disorders. Environmental officials were notified; they located the contaminated solvent in Cedar Falls and Fort Dodge, Iowa, before it had been used. Had the solvent been spread on Iowa's roads, it could have found its way into animals, food and water supplies. The result, said officials, would have been an ecological catastrophe that could have endangered the health-and perhaps lives-of thousands...
Rudolph Dvorak Fort Worth...
...list of diseases that have been troublesome to Americans lately, swine flu ranks somewhere below spring fever. Only three cases have been discovered since the flu-related death last year of a soldier at Fort Dix, N.J., and none was fatal. In fact, the massive swine flu vaccine program proved to be more of a threat than the disease: it has been implicated in nearly 400 cases of a little-understood, usually temporary paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome. Yet last week, while acknowledging the risks, federal authorities ordered a partial resumption of the on-again, off-again swine flu program...