Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thatcher finds a fresh approach for Zimbabwe-Rhodesia...
...incongruous sight. Two miles offshore from the hotel-lined beachfront, two giant dredges toil away round the clock, scooping up tons of sand from the ocean bottom. Heavy, 27-in. pipes carry the grayish slurry to the beach. There it is deposited in large, neat mounds, until the fresh sand is spread out by large earth-moving machines. Under way for two years, the controversial $64 million project by the Army Corps of Engineers is aimed at nothing less than saving one of the nation's vacation landmarks: that fabled stretch of the Florida Gold Coast known as Miami...
Anyone having spent time in the gay and lesbian rights movement will know that destroyed flyers and ignorant taunts are par for the course. Yet it is nevertheless somewhat amazing that Harvard Students, many of whom arrive fresh from superior early education and intelligent, liberal parents, would respond in the crude manner of the residents of Stoughton Hall. Likewise, it is amazing that Cambridge, the center, some say, of liberal education and general enlightment should respond with the tearing down of signs...
Jerusalem, meanwhile, was embroiled in fresh disputes with Washington. After Israeli F-4 fighter-bombers lashed across the Lebanese border on bombing strikes that left 20 dead and 60 wounded, the U.S. condemned the raids with unusual severity. The State Department pointedly noted that victims of the weekend attacks had included women and children. "Roads were filled with motorists returning from excursions to the beach and mountains," Spokesman Hodding Carter III declared, "and I would just say in the strongest terms that such raids must be stopped...
With memories of long gasoline lines still fresh, the earnings reported by many od companies last week could hardly be expected to be greeted by cheers. All told, the industry had its best second quarter ever. Profits of the 23 biggest U.S. firms totaled $5.47 billion, a rise of 66% over the same period last year. Among the five large international companies, Texaco's earnings leaped by 132% to $365 million. Earnings of the others: Exxon, up 20% to $830 million; Mobil, up 38% to $404 million; Socal, up 61% to $412 million; and Gulf...