Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy crisis, the public loses interest in it. This is the problem that Jimmy Carter thought he faced last week, with Congress on vacation and the long gasoline lines of early summer fading from memory. The President and his advisers decided that he had to make some dramatic move to keep the energy issue before the public...
What worried the Coast Guard and a 150-member group of experts from eight federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, was the oil's elusive quality. In contrast to other major spills, which usually move on the surface of the water, much of this oil has weathered, sunk and is moving along as deep as 40 ft. below the surface. The sausage-shaped rubberized barriers that were towed into place by the Coast Guard to protect the beaches extend only less than 3 ft. below the surface. Said John Robinson...
...feeling particularly edgy these days because its relations with Western Europe, and particularly West Germany, are also at an alltime low. In January, Bonn sent a group of antiterrorist experts to Beirut to discuss ways of curbing political violence with a P.L.O. security team. The Israelis saw the move as a first step toward diplomatic recognition. In June the European Community took a strong stand against Israel's policy of establishing new Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Then in mid-July, Arafat flew to Vienna to hold talks with Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and West German Social Democratic...
...been perfected by the time Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke of the Massachusetts statehouse as-get this-the "hub of the solar system." The same spirit lingers yet in Boston and was glimpsed this year when the city exploded with indignation at a proposal to move its Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington to Washington, D.C. Horrors, said Boston Mayor Kevin White: "Everybody knows Washington has no culture...
...same work all over again. Seventeen states have adopted measures to streamline their court systems since 1970; reform came to Massachusetts in July, when its reorganization plan went into effect. No longer will criminal cases be tried de novo?from scratch?on appeal, and it will be easier to move judges around from court to court to even up work loads. Some courts have also improved efficiency by hiring professional administrators to set schedules and assign cases...