Word: glitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Industry more and more appreciates that gold has properties beyond glitter. It is malleable and corrosion resistant, conducts electricity well and reflects light and heat. It is going into not only wedding rings and teeth but also into telephone equipment, jet-engine parts, auto-voltage regulators, electric razors and toasters-mostly in small amounts, alloyed with other metals, at points where electrical contacts are made. Meanwhile production in South Africa, the world's leading source of gold, has been declining, and the Soviet Union has been selling little of its growing gold cache in the West. Now that...
...water supply. Recently passed laws give the state government firmer control of future land and water use and bar any development in areas where wildlife would be disturbed or natural resources threatened. Yet state officials do not really want to discourage population growth and new building. For all the glitter of its resorts, many parts of Florida-particularly in the Northern Panhandle and interior rural areas-are poor. Fully 37% of the state's families live on an income below the poverty line. The new rush of development should help to lift many of them...
David Brower, the wild-haired druid, ecologist and outdoorsman who guided the Sierra Club during its rise to national prominence as a scourge of dam builders and redwood cutters, is the subject. The glitter in such a man's eyes can make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists...
Many critics talk about Fitzgerald's need to sprinkle glitter over experience, to paint life with a little gold brush. They accuse him of shallowness and superficiality, but his version of reality is so consistent and alluring that it seems more like a grand delusion...
...Youth Division. With Brock on the advisory committee are ten Republican Congressmen primarily in their 30s and 40s, among them former Pro Quarterback Jack Kemp. A celebrity committee, including My Three Sons Star Stanley Livingston and Miami Dolphin Linebacker Nick Buoniconti, has been set up to provide the glitter for rallies and letterheads...