Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drilling obviously poses a considerable risk to a rare and important ecosystem with a resource that, unlike oil, is renewable. Twelve thousand years ago, Georges Bank was dry land at the end of a glacier. It is still as shallow as nine feet in parts, and 300 feet at its deepest; one fisherman's tale has it that a ship's crew was able to play baseball on a shoal after a storm. The Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current converge at the site and circulate a hearty brew of nutrients on which plankton thrive and proliferate. Fish...
While Delta ranks a surprising first and El Al a merited last (see box), few of the airlines land unscathed. In an introduction headed "Thoroughly Fed-Up," Ronay writes: "Herded like cattle, kept uninformed during frequent delays, racked in their tight seats, air travelers are reduced to ciphers and dehumanized." Hungarian-born Ronay nears apoplexy on the subject of airline food: "Only the truly captive situation of the passenger explains how airlines can get away with serving unadulterated rubbish...
...most good." The bartender, who has never even seen Ireland but whose father was born there, also collects weapons for the Provisional I.R.A. He led a recent visitor to a nearby cellar, where he had hidden half a dozen M-16 rifles and a footlocker full of land mines. The cache was being held for a confederate ("I'm not sure of his name, but I think it's Casey"), who would smuggle the arms to Northern Ireland...
...bartender is one of countless Irish Americans across the country who, out of a romantic sense of patriotism for the land of their forefathers, gather money and guns for the Proves. Gunrunning is illegal: although the bulk of the arms buying is done in the Middle East, since 1973, 22 Americans have been convicted of purchasing and exporting weapons to Northern Ireland. But fund raising, even for terrorists, is not unlawful. Furthermore, any individual can carry up to $5,000 in cash out of the country without reporting it. When suspicious customs inspectors searched some passengers on a charter flight...
...future was on display at the conference's own information center: a battery of computers with which delegates could summon up printouts on a bewildering array of information from more than 100 data banks. Among them: the Denver library's information bank, which stores pollution and land-use data; the U.S. Senate's information pool, named LEGIS, which keeps tab on the fate of legislative proposals; and a computerized reference guide known as the Bibliographic Retrieval System. Delegates had only to press a few buttons to plug into storehouses of information containing such items as the Supreme...