Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know why [it was included]. Dean [ofFaculty Affairs] Eleanor G. Shore told me herselfthat it was a marginal case," said Engel...
...volume American Agenda report produced by a bipartisan staff of more than 300 experts and former Government officials. The message: reduce the budget deficit by $40 billion a year for the next four years, abandon the idea of a Star Wars defense that could totally shield the U. S., shore up the faltering savings and loan industry at an estimated cost of $50 billion, and allocate an additional $9 billion to $13 billion for programs aimed at underprivileged children. Most important, the former Presidents insisted, new taxes will be required to pay for these needed initiatives. Since Bush has refused...
Brown's major weakness last year was that it allowed a lot of shots on goal. "We want to shore up on team defense," Gaudet says. "The offensive part will take care of itself...
Last week the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a rule requiring airlines to shore up their older 737s by replacing the 7,200 rivets on each plane's fuselage. "It's time to fix design weaknesses rather than continuing to inspect for flaws," said Anthony Broderick of the FAA. "It is a fundamental shift in our way of operating." Safety experts predicted that the ruling would eventually be extended to other aircraft that are 25 years old or older...
From a bank of fog loitering along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, the waves emerge silently, advancing slowly and uniformly, like long thin lines of infantry, on the mouth of the Rio Grande. The river, exhausted after its tortuous odyssey along more than half of the 2,076-mile U.S.-Mexican border, offers little resistance to this serried assault. Its tired brown water backs up and bivouacs in a lagoon near a white lighthouse, and from there it slips, as stealthily as a camp deserter, into the Gulf...