Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both worlds: the unions won unprecedented, budget-breaking settlements and yet hated him all the more for his haughty posture. If he was attentive to the needs of blacks, he was often remarkably insensitive to the feelings of other ethnic groups in the city. He casually backed the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment that eventually pitted black militants against the largely Jewish teachers union in a struggle for control of a school district. Latent ethnic antagonisms erupted brutally into the open, making integration all the harder to accomplish...
ROBERT GOOD'S metaphor may be mixed, but it is apt. As a swimmer in an ocean of organisms, man must have a means of identifying and resisting the ones that can harm or kill him. The major mechanism that does this, and enables man to survive, is the immune system, designed by nature to quickly recognize, attack and destroy any foreign matter that enters the body. The system is complex and depends for its function on a wide variety of highly specialized substances. Its main agents are cells called lymphocytes, which are produced by the so-called "stem...
These are not true islands at all, but great, floating metal docks that cost at least $700 million and are anchored to the ocean floor. Prototypes already exist in the Persian Gulf, Caribbean Sea and off the British Isles. Tugs nudge the supertankers into berths where they unload. So little spillage occurs during this procedure that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is urging that sea islands or equivalents be built at several points off the Gulf and Atlantic coasts...
...community near Kankakee, Ill., and the later chaos by a more imaginative method-levitation. During the cataclysms, they will be off floating somewhere in the sky; afterward, they will come back down to Stelle and to the "lost continent" of Lemuria,* which will have re-emerged from the Pacific Ocean during the last catastrophes. On Lemuria they will create a city over which Christ will reign in the person of the Archangel Melchizedek. Not quite the Christ of the New Testament, though: typifying their syncretistic beliefs, the Stelle members believe that Christ borrowed Jesus' body for his earthly sojourn...
...Ocean City...