Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proliferation of lesser mealworm beetles in manure pits, mistakenly believing they would hasten the chemical breakdown of the wastes into fertilizer. The tiny black creatures have thrived on partly digested grain in the manure, and this year their numbers have suddenly got out of control. At night, they seek shelter in farmhouses, boring holes in the walls and hiding in bedding and curtains. The only way to combat them is with brooms and vacuum cleaners. Says Mrs. James Dow Jr. of Turner: "I vacuum piles of beetles every day and toss them into my wood stove...
...plan is designed to shelter Community countries against fluctuations of the dollar, as well as other currencies, and thus also help stabilize the dollar itself. Schmidt's proposal features two devices: 1) a so-called boa of currencies, which would have more leeway than the old snake to let weaker currencies, such as Britain's pound and Italy's lira, initially move up and down within a broader margin than the stronger currencies; and 2) a kind of "mini-IMF" of pooled reserves from which the members could automatically draw funds to support their currencies and deter...
...event of a Soviet attack and, intriguingly, a strong ability to survive such an attack in the first place. Earlier in the week, Carter appeared to reverse a decade-old U.S. nuclear policy by placing new emphasis on civil defense, which has been thoroughly neglected since the bomb-shelter days of the 1960s. The President ordered all civil defense preparations brought under a new government body, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The move would upgrade preparedness to protect the civilian population in a nuclear attack; the Soviets have given high priority to civil defense for quite a while...
...actors are overrewarded in our society, and that the press has to cut people like me down to size. So they come up with all sorts of wild things. They make me into an insane eccentric with an incredible fear of losing my youth, who lives in a bomb shelter, who contemplates or is going through plastic surgery, who has devastating relationships with women. It goes through cycles. First they say that women like me too much; then that women don't like me at all; then that they like me too much again. Somewhere along the way they...
...Canadians (out of a 23 million population), Trudeau's key proposal is one to entrench a "charter of basic rights and freedoms" in the constitution. The charter guarantees, among other things, the principle of bilingualism in government services throughout Canada, Trudeau's alternative to separatism as a shelter for the French-speaking minority. On the contentious issue of division of powers, Trudeau wants to start negotiations with the provinces at a constitutional summit meeting in September, with the aim of settling the question...