Word: sections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groins were also ultimately destructive. Though each protected its own stretch of beach, the barricade hastened erosion on the adjacent section, which was no longer replenished by the wash of fresh sand. The only solution seemed to be to build more groins, but they caused more erosion. By the early 1960s, the waves were lapping almost at the foundations of Miami Beach monuments like the Fontainebleau Hilton...
Five years ago, on the eve of President Richard Nixon's resignation, TIME published a 38-page Special Section on leadership. The world's problems, TIME said, often seemed to be overwhelming the capacity of leaders to deal with them. For its special section, TIME assembled a list of 200 young (45 or under) Americans who already were having a positive impact upon society and who might play pivotal roles in the nation's future. Today, the issue of leadership is more acute than ever. As Jimmy Carter struggles to rally a nation troubled by recession, inflation and the energy...
...district, which includes a dilapidated, arson-scorched section where she directs a community center. Since taking office she has pushed through the Rhode Island house two housing bills designed to cut down on arson and evictions. Well before Three Mile Island, she initiated legislation that would outlaw nuclear power plants in Rhode Island until waste disposal problems are solved. Says Morancy: "Issues involving the quality of people's lives affect generation after generation...
...Michigan, Wallis was active in the civil rights and antiwar movements a decade ago. Then he turned to religion. After studying at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., Wallis founded Sojourners in 1975, a religious community now totaling 60 people who live together in a poor section of Washington, D.C. Sojourners runs day care centers, shelters for the indigent and a free clinic, and publishes a monthly magazine with 40,000 subscribers. Says Wallis, who spends nearly half his time lecturing throughout the country and abroad: "We're trying to live our vision...
...succeeded: the current stage show appears to strike the right sensual chords for women of all ages but attracts few male patrons. The revue also hits the right cash register keys: 150 to 200 customers flock to each performance. The audiences seem a notably wholesome and ordinary cross section of women. Entire tables are booked for "bachelorette" and birthday parties, and one large group celebrated a just-obtained divorce of one of its members there. A throng of female bus drivers from Chicago convened at the Shack, and a group of nurses brought a retiring colleague there as a surprise...