Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually led: to Chubby Checker and the Twist, to the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Woodstock, and that cradle of national decline-- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll...
...effort to divert the magma, Italy's minister of civil protection summoned a team of volcanologists. The strategy: to redirect the lava from its southward path into a wide hollow, away from inhabited areas. The specialists hoped that spreading the lava would speed its cooling, and thus slow the momentum of the flow. The diversion required the removal of a 25-ft. section in a 328-ft.-long natural wall of old lava, and was to be accomplished by precision blasting...
...blast, shaking nearby sandbagged bunkers, where dozens of journalists and officials huddled. It was followed by a second blast, and a third. A portion of the wall crumbled. Some flaming lava poured down the new channel and into the depression, but much of the lava continued down the old path. Only a portion of the molten rock had been diverted. Within four days, the artificial channel had dried up completely...
...erosion. In fact, politicians have already started on this road, instituting barriers to trade such as higher tariffs and measures like the domestic content bill. If the U.S. does not begin to work out a coherent industrial and trade policy, Reich envisions, the country will head down the projectionist path to world economic ruin...
...concedes that "maybe the book has come out at a time when there are so few other ideas that people are grasping at straws." But straws or not, Reich a veteran of six years of government service would rather be at this end of the well beaten path from Harvard Square to D C producing manuscripts than down there reacting to crises...