Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between sips of coffee at a roadside diner in the rich farm land near Three Mile Island, area residents kept citing the reassurances of company officials that there was no need for concern. As Vice President Herbein had been saying: "This accident is not out of the ordinary for this kind of reactor. It was not unexpected.' President Creitz meant to be equally low key, but in retrospect his words were unwittingly chilling. Said he: "The same occurrence happened two or three times in 1974 on Unit No. 1, but the tanks didn't spill." It was about this time...
...pushing us into a corner with this false treaty, we haven't any other choice but to defend ourselves. [Arafat mocked the prospect of limited self-rule for a Palestinian state held out by the Camp David agreements.] Self-rule? Self-rule without any control of the land and even the water -the water for drinking? If you were in my position, would you accept it, this new slavery to my people...
...many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz's central character, Paul Kramer, renders his past imperfect with a poignancy that gives the novel a solid grounding. His Memorex ear for dialogue and his unblinking self-examination provide the basis for a muted, moral judgment on life as it was lived along the San Andreas Fault...
They argue that rent control--which requires that the city approve any proposed rent increases--depresses property values, denies fair profits to landlords, decreases money for maintenance and subsidizes college students and young professionals at the expense of land-lords and taxpayers...
Graham, one of a five-member council majority opposing the end of rent control, argues that allowing unlimited rents would drive out poor and elderly tenants, making Cambridge a city of wealthy professionals, and would inflate land values creating pressure for large-scale development...