Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planted between fields have endured, and retard the dust and wind over the 1,200 acres he and his son farm. Malard's hunch is that the improved farming practices, the big dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the Missouri, farm ponds and all the other modern techniques will prevent the terrible devastation and suffering of the 1930s...
...what many Japanese are saying. After much hesitancy and throat clearing, speaker after speaker expresses a desire for a peaceful world that builds prosperity. What raises that commonplace above banality is the obvious sincerity behind it; repeated often enough, it could almost serve as an embryonic creed for modern Japan. Takeshita talks of creating an international furusato (hometown). Speaking in Chicago after last week's summit, he pledged Japan's cooperation in "helping to resolve and prevent conflicts" between nations and vowed that Japan would play an international role commensurate with its financial strength...
...went to Wake Forest, Palmer's school, though Strange ceased to be a pup out of Palmer when he was snooty one time to a volunteer scorekeeper. Golf's great king slammed the young individualist publicly, along with all his modern kind, for "discourteous and ungentlemanly behavior and thoughtlessness that is despicable to me." Manners aside, Strange indicated odd priorities for such a talented man. He customarily skipped the British Open because of its proximity to his own little tournament for a brewery...
First settled in the 1860s, by pioneers crossing the snow-capped Cascade Mountains, the county today reflects a modern version of that rugged independence. "This is a red-neck, white-sock county, dogs in the back of pickups, everyone wants to carry a gun," says a longtime political observer. The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5,250) is a "detour down a back road," to lift a line from a country ballad popular there. Lumber trucks and pickups rumble through the town's four traffic lights, which feel the strain of traffic only during hunting season. The lone presidential candidate...
...hour emergency rooms -- have been especially hard hit. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of U.S. regional trauma systems that came up with a disturbing diagnosis. Twenty- two years after the National Academy of Sciences declared that trauma was the "neglected disease of modern society," only two states, Maryland and Virginia, have set up acceptable statewide systems. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia either have incomplete coverage or lack essential components; the remaining 29 states have not yet set up formal systems. Says Dr. John West of the University of California at Irvine...