Word: shores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aching eardrums are the least of the problems caused by the Soviet signal. Norwegian ship-to-shore radio has been blocked on occasion; telecommunications between Western nations and their embassies in Asia and the Middle East have been impeded. Radio operators as far away as Australia have been bothered by the transmissions...
...effects of such spills remain to be fully determined. Little long-term damage seems to have resulted from the Torrey Canyon disaster; indeed, the most serious effects on marine organisms have been blamed not on the oil but on the detergents used to disperse it. Spills closer to shore can have much more dramatic effects. Large numbers of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine worms were killed almost immediately when a barge capsized and spilled over 200,000 gal. of oil into Buzzards Bay, off Falmouth, Mass., in 1969. Eighteen months later, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported that...
...Within days, real estate sales stopped, building came to a halt, and supermarket sales plummeted as buyers wondered whether the courts would allow them to keep items purchased within city limits. Officials of the Cape Cod tourist town, dreading a ghost town future for Mashpee, sought federal loans to shore up the town's teetering credit rating. As municipal bond sales and mortgages became increasingly difficult to negotiate, race relations in the town, which is one-third Indian, showed signs of strain. Things seemed even bleaker when the residents of Gay Head, Mass., a town across the Sound on Martha...
There is a chance that none of the defendants will come to trial, for two reasons: 1) indictment of the Americans might lead to pressures for their extradition-an unlikely prospect; 2) with Italy asking for U.S. loans to shore up the lira, pressing criminal charges against U.S. citizens might seem tactless. But the commission may act against the Americans anyway, if only to diffuse Italian cynicism about politicians and that international symbol of trouble-Lockheed...
Where the sound meets the shore...