Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy hopes to have 5 130 female officers and enlisted women on ocean-going vessels...
...spare, still and natural, an appropriate setting for this family. But Allen forces the issue, almost to the point of being a farce: when the father's new girlfriend (Maureen Stapleton) crashes in on the scene in flaming red and glitter, the contrast becomes too obvious, almost ludicrous. The ocean rumbles too loud and too often, even if the isolation of the beaches is such an appropriate setting. And in the last shots--after the mother is dead and buried and the new wife properly installed--the tranquility of the ocean and the family is so simple a device...
When work on the Vulcan is completed next month, the Navy will be able to pipe aboard the first women crew members ever to serve on its ocean-going vessels (other than a transport or hospital ship). The service had been barred by law from so using women until this summer, when a federal district court ruled that sex cannot be used as a criterion to prevent volunteers from serving on combat-related vessels. To comply with this ruling, the Navy is refitting the Vulcan and four other support ships to take on 16 female officers and 375 enlisted women...
...high fence is intended to wall off two sections, totaling 12.68 miles, of the 1,950-mile U.S.-Mexican border that are most frequently crossed by illegal immigrants. The first is a 5.98-mile stretch from the Pacific Ocean, across Dead Man's Canyon and Washer Woman's Flats to Airport Mesa near Chula Vista, Calif; the second, 6.7 miles of border running along the American side of the Rio Grande through downtown El Paso...
...years ago, no one in New York City thought about the stuff they flushed down the toilet. They didn't know--and probably wouldn't have cared--that the waste was collected and carried out on a barge and dumped in the ocean. However, when all the garbage began to gather in the middle of the ocean some people began to care. It was a thick, black, foul-smelling mass of sludge--described as "black mayonnaise"--perhaps 100 square miles in area. No one knew how deep. It came drifting back to the New York shoreline with a number...