Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's centerpiece is Bassmaster magazine, a slick journal that comes out ten times a year and boasts a circulation of 540,000. The publication offers insider advice on such topics as trolling, plastic worms and fish hideouts. Bassmaster's most famous subscriber is George Bush, who calls it his favorite magazine. With a loyal readership and scant competition, Bassmaster charges advertisers $20,000 a page, and posted ad sales of $12 million last year. The company as a whole had revenues of $30 million in 1988, double the level of five years earlier...
...characters all speak in the same voice. Unlike Celie in The Color Purple, whose simple language and grammatical errors were emotionally powerful and expressive of a strong character, everyone in Temple uses a slick new-age vocabulary. Even the foreigners, the African and British, use the same language...
...will be enormous. By last week the oil slick had traveled across an 1,800-sq.-mi. area. To stop its advance, "skimming" vessels sucked up the crude for transfer to dredging barges. Onshore, ten-man crews hosed down rocks with heated seawater. The two-pronged drive to clear sea and shore was plagued by snafus and logistical problems. As the weathered oil hardened into a debris-laden "mousse," the Soviet skimming ship found that the crude was too thick for its pumps and managed to recover only a few hundred barrels. And as the point of the oil slick...
While cleanup crews battled the slick, the toll on Alaskan wildlife continued to mount. The body count of 458 fallen otters and 2,889 dead birds represented only a fraction of the casualties. Up to 2,000 otters may have perished. More than 33,000 birds may have died in Prince William Sound alone. To save the 6.5 million sandpipers and 10 million other shorebirds starting to migrate through the region, wildlife experts are trying to scare them away from their favorite stopping-off sites. The naturalists have set up big- barreled propane-powered cannons that are timed...
...each cylinder, and an innovative air-intake system that can sip oxygen from a single narrow throttle valve or suck it full blast from a wide-mouth intake, depending on how sharply the driver presses the pedal to the metal. Other high-tech bells and whistles include a slick six-speed computer-assisted manual transmission and a suspension system that automatically adjusts shock absorbers to the speed...