Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offshore rigs is legendary for both quantity and quality. Meals have long been considered the prime entertainment for men who are marooned for weeks at a time away from land and family, doing work that is potentially hazardous. Even with television, mail and the possibility of phone calls to shore, tensions inevitably build with men who sleep four bunks to a small, unadorned cabin...
...Milwaukee, a new joke is making the rounds: Q. Do you own any shore property? A. Not yet. Lakeside residents in the upper Midwest find the humor somewhat strained. Last week Lakes Michigan and Huron had risen to their highest level since 1887, nearly 3 ft. over their average March altitude of 578 ft. above sea level. Lake Superior, at more than a foot over its norm, is not far behind. Waterfront-property owners are battling flooded basements and beach erosion, and some face the prospect of losing their homes. Says Park Planner Bob Elmore of the Indiana Dunes National...
...building, and the most affectingly American one. (Alas, his project for an Indiana fast-food stand never got built.) Farnsworth looks like a house, just barely. After it came almost nothing but true Miesian "universal space": high-rises, modeled on his twin apartment slabs (1951) on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, that were supposed to serve any purpose--living, working, learning--in any region of the world...
...their strike, the printers are perceived by the public as overpaid and underworked. "Fleet Street is one of the great bastions of Luddism," observed a senior government official. "The print unions, which have rejected every attempt to adapt to the future, are now washed up on a very lonely shore...
...Claude Brideau, 33, of British Columbia, who had arrived in Aden the night before the trouble started. They were crew members of the 44-ft. yacht Wathara IV, whose Australian owner, Bruce Cameron, 65, had stopped to take on water and food after 15 days at sea. On shore, they watched as artillery began to fire from the hills, MiGs appeared in the sky and shells suddenly were landing everywhere. "The concussions sucked the air from our lungs," McSeveney said later. "We thought we were going to die." After 24 hours, they swam a quarter mile through...