Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indiana Governor Otis Bowen became the first to declare a state of emergency. He assigned the National Guard to escort trucks carrying coal. The Indiana public service commission proposed a contingency plan for reducing power when utility coal supplies get down to an emergency level...
...headquarters rooms with map-covered walls and the whine of heavy trucks stripping their gears in the red clay sludge that passes for roads. Rhodesia's 9,000-man army is less than a U.S. Army division in strength, and its war is still mainly fought at the level of small patrols-four-and five-man army "sticks" and ten-man guerrilla sections seeking to hunt and kill in a heavy bush terrain...
...estimated 1.25 million Americans take insulin injections daily. With too little of the life-saving hormone, a diabetic's blood sugar can rise to dangerous levels (hyperglycemia); with too much, the sugar level falls too low (hypoglycemia), and the diabetic may go into a coma...
There are three levels of truth in newspapers, the lowest being advertising, DeJean said. The second level is the front page and it is not much better because it is so easy to manipulate the news, he said...
Through the greenhouse effect nitrous oxide, acting in the same fashion as carbon dioxide, traps heat within the earth's atmosphere. A rise in the nitrous oxide level could inevitably make the earth warmer, McElroy said...