Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four counties in Washington and Oregon put into effect an emergency preparedness plan, devised in 1970, that calls for erecting a command post to coordinate emergency power needs at a remodeled bomb shelter in the Kelly Butte area of Portland. The Red Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost...
...Washington's unwritten rule that no regulatory agency speaks out against another. In a recent Detroit speech, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis A. Engman lashed out at most regulatory agencies, particularly the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board. He said that their practices raise prices and shelter producers from the competitive consequences of "lassitude and inefficiency" (TIME Essay...
Pathetic Standoff. The militant left has carried civil disobedience one step further. Housing is short because of higher construction costs and tight credit, so radicals have led homeless squatters into whatever shelter is avail able. In one section of the city, 40 families raced to occupy brand-new housing already assigned to others. They held it against the frustrated protests of the rightful tenants, some of whom had been waiting years. It was a pathetic stand off between different dispossessed...
...Inflationary expectations are repressing effective demand," Greenspan told TIME Correspondent John Berry last week. "That is one of the characteristics of an inflationary environment: the uncertainty in the average household. What will be the cost of my food, my shelter? This uncertainty makes the consumer pull back and save more. If we are successful in bringing down the big thrust of federal spending, convincing people that it and inflation can be controlled, then home building can start to move, sales tied to home building can begin to move-and that includes cars." The ultimate result, Greenspan believes, will be less...
Even if Viking fails to detect living things, there is always the possibility that life on Mars is based on a chemistry different from that of any known life forms, or that it sought shelter even deeper in the ground as protection against the sun's deadly ultraviolet rays...