Word: scatteredness
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In a half that lumbered its way to a 36--24 finish, B.C. took the lead in stop-and-go, foul-line-to-foul-line lack-of-action basketball as the officials did more work than the players. And the crowd--scattered sparsely throughout the cavernous arena--snored away.
Modern farm-belt agriculture, however, has brought with it a new manifestation of an age-old problem -soil erosion. Inadequate conservation measures combined with very heavy planting have led to excessive runoffs of soil into rivers and streams. In such Plains states as Nebraska and Kansas, where often only scattered...
Jimmy Carter can be thanked -if that is the word-for Iowa's- prominence. Nobody paid much attention to the state's early and unusual caucus system until Jimmy Who? decided to blitz the state in 1976 and thus get a jump on his opponents. The press, awakened...
The plan, which took effect last week, would confine the guerrillas to their scattered assembly camps and the Rhodesian security forces to their 42 relatively central military bases until an independent Zimbabwe government is formed after February's majority-rule elections. Monitoring the truce, under the supervision of British...
Soames showed far less tolerance toward other, more serious cease-fire breaches last week. Reacting to the reported infiltration of 600 to 700 ZANLA insurgents from Mozambique, he ordered Rhodesian troops into action along the country's eastern border. In another flagrant cease-fire violation, ten guerrillas attacked a...