Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trippers turn the Jersey Shore into Las Vegas East
...believed that casino betting would do little more for the once flashy seaside resort than add to the squalor and corruption that had built up since the city's heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. Practically no one had the temerity to predict that gambling on the Jersey Shore would one day rival the goings-on in Las Vegas...
...President has few viable policy options. He seems likely to reaffirm U.S. commitment to the Carribean Basin plan the White House unveiled last spring. That program had a handful of promising long-range features designed to shore up Latin American economies. For example, most basin exports to the U.S. were to be duty-free, technology transfers were to increase and Washington was going to help bail out financially strapped countries like Honduras and Costa Rica with additional non-military aid. But most of these measures have bogged down in Congress, where senators and representatives give what gifts they...
...Maria basin was not explored sooner. Only since Interior Secretary James Watt took office in January 1981 have oil companies been encouraged to explore aggressively for new reserves in undeveloped areas. Their recent successes have come after the highly publicized and expensive failures at Georges Bank off the Massachusetts shore and the Baltimore Canyon off New Jersey. Experts have known of petroleum deposits in the California basin for years, but ignored them because early tests showed, inaccurately, that the oil was heavy and hard to refine...
...Clark-Commonwealth collaboration is part of Chicago's Adopt-a-School program, designed to shore up urban public schools at a time of financial crisis with aid from the private sector. The ground rules: companies must make a one-year commitment, promise to work with students on the average of once a week, and develop programs that try both to improve student motivation and beef up the basics of reading, writing and mathematics. So far this year, 102 companies and organizations have adopted 116 of Chicago's 604 public schools. Says Superintendent Ruth Love of the program...