Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortfall is worsening. Among other things, Congress reacted to the Reagan cutbacks by passing 23 public health bills during the '80s, many of them efforts to shore up the FDA's powers. The action significantly expanded the FDA's workload. Yet Congress never moved to restore a single lost staff position or add employees to meet the increased responsibilities. The advent of an entirely new industry, biotechnology, demanded an FDA response to more than 950 genetically engineered products during the 1980s...
...standing by a river suddenly noticed a baby float by. One of the men jumped into the river and swam the baby to shore. Then a second baby floated by, and a third. Each time, the same man swam to the rescue. But babies kept coming, one after another. The other man saw that they were getting nowhere. So he walked upstream to stop the flood of babies at its source...
Spence wrote that FAS should also shore up itsfaculty strength in Latin American and MiddleEastern studies and provide "full funding" for theHarvard Academy for International and Foreign AreaStudies, which seeks to nurture young scholars inthe field...
Takaki, author of Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans appeared as the second of three speakers invited this fall by the Harvard Foundation to speak on racial and ethnic relations...
...Embarcadero Freeway, a double-decker that skirts downtown San Francisco, is riddled with cracks in the support columns. Officially, it is supposed to reopen next spring, but one structural engineer who has examined it says, "I'd never go back on that s.o.b. again. No matter how much they shore it up, there is no way to make it safe." Pier 45, the city's main fishing pier, was closed because inspectors found deep fissures running the length of the pier floor. With no alternative pier to sail from, the 150-boat commercial-fishing fleet has been idled just...