Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost every other discussion of U.S. intervention abroad for the past decade, is the chill specter of Viet Nam. Out of fear of repeating that colossal misadventure, Americans have seized hold of its lessons, perhaps inaccurately, perhaps obsessively. There is a strong aversion to undertaking any commitment to shore up threatened pro-American regimes in the Third World, no matter how strategically important they are, and a reluctance to believe that the countries of a region could topple like dominoes, no matter how compelling the evidence of spreading subversion. This is particularly true of Central America, where the political vulnerability...
...flattop sat ignobly in the calm water, stuck in the mud of the bay. The 3,500-man crew could only stare across the short, unbridgeable distance to some 3,000 friends and relatives waiting in frustration at Alameda Naval Air Station, the carrier's home port. On shore, a gentle drizzle ruined the coiffures of women who had long looked forward to the reunions. Shirley Genson of Centerville, Ala., lamented, "This is my wedding day, and he's stuck out there." Said Debbie Harris of Show Low, Ariz., about her husband, Petty Officer Kenneth Harris...
...million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine wildlife refuges that rim the lake; about 4,000 acres of fresh-water marsh, home to some 7 million waterfowl and countless shore birds, have been destroyed by the briny advance. Utah officials are considering several solutions, including dams to catch spring snow runoff and an enlargement of the culverts through the railway causeway that slices the lake in half...
Never more so than in Hadleigh Castle, 1829. Constable brought to his view of the castle (which overlooks the Thames estuary) a pressure of melancholy: he was painting this desolate shore from memory, and his beloved wife Maria had just died of consumption. The paint is crusted, layer over layer, like mortar; even the grass and mallows in the foreground seem fossilized, and the broken tower-taller in art than in life-has an Ossianic misery to it. Then one's eye escapes to the horizon, glittering with scumbled white light, like a promise of resurrection. The whole image...
...life as well as industrial installations along the shoreline. The gravest threat is to the huge desalination plants that Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the other arid nations depend on for their drinking water. From Saudi Arabia to the Straits of Hormuz last week, armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran and the seven...