Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crippling Costs. The resulting rise in rates is "a disaster," says Dr. Melville Platt, associate director of professional services at New York Hospital. Most doctors agree. A New York City obstetrician has to shell out $9,433 a year to keep himself adequately covered against lawsuits; a specialist in a high-risk field like neurosurgery must pay $14,329 for protection. Doctors elsewhere face similar hikes. Dr. Suzanne
...develop a "swing" that allows a boat to glide smoothly through the water right on keel. Rowers adjust to the imperfections in their teammates' rowing technique, so that after racing a season together, the boat is almost perfectly balanced, and there is as little resistance as possible to the shell cutting through the water. The crew had achieved this near-perfect swing after months of working together as a unit, but it all disappeared with the loss of Howard and McKenna...
...sequence, three Palestinian fedayeen slipped into Nahariya (pop. 21,000), a seaside resort in the Lebanese border area where 48 Israelis had been killed in three earlier fedayeen raids (see map). This time four Israelis died, as well as the three commandos. Israel's initial response was to shell selected targets in southern Lebanon. The raid and the reprisal touched off charges and countercharges, threats and anti-threats around the Middle East that for the first time seriously weakened the Kissinger peace...
...moment, only inhabitants of less damaged surrounding villages are being allowed back to live. Even so, some determined Quneitrans have made it into town to look over their destroyed homes and figure out how to rebuild. Says Issa Dakdouk, 24, an electrician who set up camp in the shell of a ruined building with his wife and four children: "I've waited seven years for this day. This time I am here to stay...
...Boston Pops Esplanade Concerts are about all classical music buffs have to listen to this weekend if they don't want to make the trip up to Tanglewood. Considering the price, things could be worse. The free performances will begin at 8:30 tonight and tomorrow at the Hatch Shell on the banks of the Charles. This evening's program includes works by Grieg, Khachaturian and Youmans. Tomorrow Harry Ellis Dickson conducts some of Beethoven's greatest hits, with a little Richard Rodgers thrown in for good measure. This is, after all, the Pops...