Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong in the Caribbean traces to the very success of its economic development. Some 100 million tourists flock to the region every year. Hotels and condominiums are springing up almost everywhere, from the volcanic islands of the Antilles to the 100-mile-long stretch of hitherto virtually untouched barrier reef off the tiny Central American republic of Belize. Along with the vacationers has come a multitude of corporate enterprises: petrochemical plants, electronics factories, cement works. Attracted by special economic enticements and an eager labor force, industry now occupies or overlooks once pristine mangrove swamps and placid lagoons like those that...
...major disturbance of this fragile ecosystem could have far-reaching repercussions. Unfortunately, as Rodriguez Mercado notes, there is little awareness of the economic importance of these resources. Few officials seem willing to trade off the immediate payoff of a new hotel for the long-term benefits of a protected reef or thriving coastal estuary...
...offers him half a million dollars and threatens to destroy his business if he refuses. Hula does not. Cruz has somehow got hold of a ton of cocaine in Colombia and transported it to the Bahamas. A boat carrying this cache will approach Miami and run aground on a reef. Hula will be called by the port authorities, who trust him, to salvage the wreck and tow it in. The coke will be removed. Then Cruz will peddle it to the very gangsters from whom he stole it in the first place...
...when it comes to stealing another woman's husband. Jean has tended the senile, incontinent mother for desolatingly lonely months; Rita has used the Ma Bell commercial method of reaching and touching by phone. Waves of passion rise between the two sisters like water spuming against a coastal reef, then subside in daughterly grief before the great silence: death. Suzanne Bertish's Jean is subcutaneously sensitive, and we feel the sand beneath her skin, the abrasion and desperation of living a life ill lost for either love or duty...
...inconceivable. As the sun sets over the Great Barrier Reef and David Attenborough strolls into a fadeout contemplating some prehistoric epiphany, none other than Mr. Whipple may be nipping at his desert boots, fingers flexing around a roll of Charmin. Hard pressed on all sides-especially from Washington-PBS will try running commercials to keep solvent and keep the flag flying...