Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President's invitation to be Minister of Public Works in the new Cabinet. "What in the world could I accomplish in the nine months before elections?" he asked. "I'm a serious person." Even the presidential campaign has ground to a halt. Under the seven-year-old Liberal-Conservative coalition, which alternates the presidency every four years, the Liberals are due for office next time around. Four months ago, however, the coalition candidate-Liberal Leader Carlos Lleras Restrepo-withdrew his name after a series of noisy intraparty squabbles...
...Chautauqua Lake, the famous site of open-air lectures and summer artistry. In Appalachia, strip miners have ravaged the hills for ore and left behind a gutted horizon that, says one native, "makes my stomach turn." Thousands of acres of Atlantic coast marshland, home of waterfowl and spawning ground for oysters and clams, are being filled in by marina-minded resort builders...
Slama and Williams believe that different insects have different kinds of juvenile hormones. By isolating these hormones, scientists may find ways to eliminate insects selectively, without using sprays that endanger the lives of higher animals and useful insects. Ground-up newspapers may be a ready source of a hormonelike chemical to control some bugs...
...competitive advantages of newer stores, broader product variety or better parking, trading stamps have ceased to be a decisive lure. This fact, along with the advent of discount supermarkets in many parts of the U.S., has begun to cause grocers to fight their competitive battles again on the old ground of lower prices...
Some experts predict that Germany's inland waterways will gradually lose ground to trucking and pipelines. Shipping Expert Walter Marquardt, deputy head of the Transport Ministry's inland shipping section, questions the gloomy forecasts, noting that "traffic predictions have almost always proved too low." Even if inland shipping's share of commerce fails to grow proportionately, says Marquardt, it is still bound to increase in absolute terms as growing factories-in Germany and elsewhere-require ever greater amounts of the ores and bulk raw materials that the slow-chugging barges still carry so economically...