Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population that is 51.3% black. Unemployment among the marginally skilled blacks of the ghettos is three times that of the city's whites. Although it boasts one of the world's busiest airports and a rail network that feeds the Southeast, Atlanta's commuters creep bumper to bumper in rush-hour traffic unrelieved by mass transit. Within minutes of downtown is bucolic countryside?but Peachtree Creek and the Chattahoochee River are badly polluted. Inexorably, Atlanta moves toward repeating the environmental and demographic mistakes of older cities. Neon and tacky developments push the city's fringes across the landscape, and unified...
...bands of youths calling themselves guerrillas, the capital endured an odd and bitter little siege. Preposterously ill-organized for such a venture, Radical Rennie Davis' Mayday romanced itself into the delusion that it could literally close down the Federal Government by blocking traffic into the city during morning rush hours. In terms of that immediate goal, the protesters had about the same effect on traffic as a heavy spring rain...
Large questions about the future of the antiwar movement would be answered this week as the Mayday demonstrators, numbering up to 30,000, attempt an exercise in "nonviolent civil disobedience" to shut down the Federal Government for two days by blocking nine key bridges and intersections in Washington during rush hours...
...stainless-steel flatware. Many businessmen want the Government to go much further. Last year protectionists raced through the House a bill authorizing quotas on any foreign product that won as much as 15% of a U.S. market. The chief target: Japan. The bill died in a Senate adjournment rush, but the import debate has resurfaced this year in a way that could poison U.S.-Japanese political relations...
...tacking against and with gravity, for the integrity of the land, journey to an ocean, the long way home, surprising, brief use of the arroyos, except for slight rains and sudden floods, they exist for the time when the snow has melted in the mountains, then they fill and rush by coolness in the heat of summer in their dry redness-sudden arteries waiting empty until needed, then fill and more grows green between the mountains a receptive valley, grateful supplication I don't have time for a watch the obelisk U. S. Courthouse Santa...