Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the company's washing machines are so well made that nobody needs to have them repaired. Whirlpool, which also produces washing machines, links craftsmanship to patriotism. Its commercials show inspirational scenes of eagles in flight, while a voice-over intones that pride of workmanship made the nation great. Even the fast-food industry is catching the trend. Wendy's touts the quality of its hamburgers instead of the industry's traditional message of "eat fast and cheap...
...Ukraine are a divided minority, while the Orthodox Church seems to be thriving. Orthodoxy's well-being is partly the result of a new nostalgia for the past apparent in the Soviet Union today. Along with all folk art, architecture and antique mementos, there is a great vogue for icons, church music and church history...
...Lake Erie is a dead lake. Save the rest of the Great Lakes." So went the environmentalists' plaint during the 1960s. Lake Erie was not, in fact, quite dead, but it was suffering from a variety of serious disorders, including a seemingly uncheckable algae growth that, like a fast-spreading cancer, was choking off the other forms of life. Though the remaining four of North America's great chain of lakes-Superior, Michigan, Huron and Ontario-were less diseased, they too showed symptoms of serious, man-made illness...
...growing pollution of the Great Lakes was not only an aesthetic and commercial tragedy. More than 29 million Americans and 9 million Canadians (more than a third of Canada's population) live in the Great Lakes basin. The lakes contain 95% of the U.S. supply of fresh water in lakes and reservoirs and 20% of the world's; they supply drinking water for 23.5 million Americans. Clearly, something had to be done...
...discharges, the flotsam from shoreline cities, the fecal and bacterial wastes are no longer dumped in the lakes in vast quantities. According to the International Joint Commission, the group overseeing the U.S.-Canadian agreements to clean up the waters, more than 600 of the 864 major dischargers into the Great Lakes now meet the tough new water-quality regulations. In the past ten years U.S. and Canadian municipalities have spent more than $5 billion to improve sewage treatment plants. Industries, often prod! ded by injunctions and fines, have spent billions more...