Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then came a cultural and economic upheaval caused by the pipeline. Nearly 4,000 construction workers and $150-per-hour prostitutes swiftly turned Valdez into a rollicking boomtown. Life is calmer now. The construction workers have left, and the tanker trade has created lucrative permanent jobs. Valdez has a modern high school to show for its troubles and a small, gleaming new hospital to serve its 4,500 inhabitants. Doubtless in response to environmentalists' protest, the eight-member consortium that runs the terminal takes great care to maintain a freshly scrubbed, spill-conscious image. Sea lions play...
...West, where he has made his new home. At Harvard University's commencement, the 59-year-old Nobel laureate received a standing ovation as he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters. Then, like an Old Testament prophet, he denounced in an hourlong address such evils of modern American society as civic cowardice, immoral legalism, a licentious press, capitulation in Asia, and godless humanism. Excerpts from the speech...
...farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed to the modern-day bootleggers. Sighs former State Senator Lynn Newbry: "I suppose it's a similar situation to when alcohol was prohibited. You just can't get all the stills...
...many people become disabled despite the methods of modern medicine? The answer is that they did not. Under mounting pressure from claimants and their congressional allies, the definition of disability has been stretched to the point where it can cover a case of nerves, a lingering depression, even chronic headaches. Disability claims are now swamping HEW, which has had to hire 650 administrative judges to hear all the appeals?more judges than the entire federal court system uses. Even so, there is a backlog of 133,860 cases. If their claims are rejected by HEW, people usually resort...
...life. I just never got paid before," says Charlotte Ford. But two years ago, Henry Ford II's elder daughter set up her own Seventh Avenue business and at about the same time started doing a little writing. The result: Charlotte Ford's Book of Modern Manners, scheduled for publication next spring. "It's completely different from Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt, says Ford, 37. The book gives tips for roommates of the opposite sex ("They should split the rent and put both their names on the mailbox"), and advice to a divorcee about her wedding ring...