Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed bill is likely to become law some time next year. The need for atomic power in a U.S. grown dangerously dependent on imports of foreign oil is simply too obvious. During the campaign, former Nuclear Engineer Carter argued that the U.S. should regard atomic power as a "last resort." His support of the bill shows that he recognizes it is time to call on that last resort, especially since his own Administration forecasts a need for an additional 320 plants by the year...
...brothers eventually quarreled. Ervil wanted to turn Los Molinos into a beach resort, while Joel envisioned a simple, self-sustaining community. Moreover, Joel, unlike Ervil, thought that a separation of church and civil law was essential. Kicked out of the First Born Church in 1970, Ervil started his own sect, the Church of the Lamb of God, in San Diego. He also began writing tracts claiming the authority to execute anyone who refused to accept him as God's representative. Less than two years later, Joel was shot dead in nearby Ensenada, Mexico...
...police grabbed Son of Sam just before he could claim even more victims in even more spectacular crimes. David Berkowitz told them why he had placed that semiautomatic rifle in his car on the night he was captured. He said he planned to drive out to the fashionable Hampton resort communities on Long Island and blast away at the crowd in a discotheque or nightclub. He was ready, he said with a smile, "to go down in a blaze of glory...
Creation of the "Witteveen facility," as the emergency pool has already been dubbed, will greatly expand the IMF's rapidly growing importance as lender of last resort to countries about to go on the rocks -and demander of unpopular economic steps that nations must take to qualify for their loans. That is a role that was never planned for the Fund when it was created at the Bretton Woods, N.H., international monetary conference in 1944 and would have seemed unlikely even four years...
Technically, the film is inept - suspenselessly shot, each resort to the special-effects man visible. In closeup, Orca has a very rubbery look, but perhaps no more so than his human costars, come to think...