Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the danger, some Floridians greeted the storm with abandon, holding hurricane parties in Miami, Key West and other resorts. Part of the come-what-may attitude may have been a result of the complacency that civil defense' officials say has grown in the 14 years since southern Florida's last major hurricane, in 1965. In coastal Dade County, the population has increased almost 55% since then, and an estimated 80% of the 1.7 million residents have never lived through a big storm...
...strictest building codes in the nation, requiring that buildings be capable of withstanding 120-m.p.h. winds, it offers no safeguards against storm "surges," the walls of water a hurricane pushes in front of it. And building codes elsewhere are less strict. The risk to life and property, say officials, is still considerable despite giant leaps in the art of weather forecasting. Such is the wildly unpredictable nature of hurricanes that the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables gives itself a 100-mile margin of error on a 24-hour forecast...
...much of McMullen's story can be believed? Although Blake says he checked whatever he could, TIME sources found some parts of McMullen's story credible, other portions improbable. New York City police can see no reason why the I.R.A. would want to kidnap Flanagan, an unpolitical type; any ransom it might collect would hardly be worth the danger of provoking a police crackdown. David Blundy, a London Sunday Times writer who interviewed McMullen extensively before Blake did, says McMullen's accounts of two bombings in Ireland checked out in every detail, but that his stories...
...Political Economist Andrew Shonfield. "And the fact that you now recognize that you don't, and that you also look back nostalgically to the moment you thought that you did, impresses you perhaps more than it impresses us." Added British Strategic Expert Laurence Martin: "I would prefer to say not that deterrence has collapsed, but that certain illusions which were perhaps justified in the days of the American nuclear monopoly are now clearly no longer appropriate...
...say that we have no possibilities. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. We can only defeat ourselves. The kind of world in which we want to live is largely...