Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan operatives had settled on Schweiker by Friday, July 16. Laxalt tried to reach him in Washington, but discovered he was on vacation. He could not make contact until the following Monday, when Schweiker returned his call from a pay phone in Ocean City, N.J. Laxalt said that he had something so important to discuss that he could not reveal it on the phone. Schweiker agreed to meet him and Sears in Washington on Tuesday morning. At a 90-minute meeting in Laxalt's office, Sears recalls, "we told him if he was agreeable, we would recommend...
...Maurice Monge, a French traveler staying in a hotel in Tangshan, the scramble to safety down heaving stairs and past crumbling masonry was an even greater nightmare: "It was horrible. We were lost, like in an ocean, an ocean in which everything was moving...
...nuclear-powered warships and also offered docking privileges at a new port being constructed near Perth in Western Australia. Since Australia's own army and relatively small navy are insufficient to guard its 12,210-mile coastline or ensure control of supply lines across the Indian Ocean, Fraser has enthusiastically supported Washington's opening up a new base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
...planet's atmosphere. Warming-trend advocates note that winters in such normally chilly regions as Scandinavia and New England have been uncharacteristically mild in recent years, and glaciers in the Alps have actually retreated. Even a modest rise in world temperatures would bring with it other perils. Ocean levels raised by melting polar ice could drastically change global air-circulation and rainfall patterns, as well as cause extensive flooding. The result could be a radical decline in the productivity of many of the world's important agricultural regions...
...weather today." Geophysicist Willi Dansgaard of the University of Copenhagen is studying cores taken from the ice in Greenland and Antarctica to learn about temperature and precipitation through the ages. Researchers at Columbia University's Lament-Doherty Geological Observatory are examining sea-floor cores for clues to ocean temperatures and circulation...