Word: gateways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Watt declared that the Administration, contrary to earlier statements, had no immediate plans to give back to state or local governments any land now set aside as national parks and wildlife refuges, including such urban parks as Gateway in New York and New Jersey, and Golden Gate in California...
...Gateway to the West"tries to stop its urban exodus
...Louis has long been loved as a city of beer and baseball, riverboats and tree-lined avenues, French fur traders, German burghers, and that distinctive 630-ft.-high stainless-steel arch, a symbol of the city's historic role as "Gateway to the West." At the turn of the century, St. Louis was the nation's fourth largest city. It is the birthplace of T.S. Eliot, the ice cream cone and, some say, the blues...
...gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean-and the choke point through which passes virtually all of the Middle Eastern oil on which Japan's economy depends-is the Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class...
...York City, by tradition the largest and most famous immigrant gateway to the New World, now has 80,000 children in bilingual classes. About 60,000 are Spanish. Among the nine other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean and Russian. Naturally, in the shadow of Ellis Island, there are many nostalgic references to the melting pot and the role of the American high school in giving incoming foreigners their first shared experience of the American way of life. Proponents argue that what was best for grandfather is not good enough for immigrant children today. For one thing, grandfather...