Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider the state of things in 1983. Last week, in Greenwich, Conn., a 100-ft.-long slice of an Interstate bridge fell away, dropping three motorists 70 ft. to their deaths in the Mianus River. In the Southwest, melting snow and bureaucrats' miscalculation produced a deluge: Colorado River water was gushing through dam spillways at almost three times the normal rates, flooding towns in California and Arizona, causing $12.2 million in damage and threatening to rise higher. In both cases, behind the sadness of immediate events was a niggling sense of disillusion with U.S. engineering know-how: Glen Canyon...
...rubber raft flipped; all passengers except Wert made it to shore. Farther downstream on the 1,450-mile river, in Mexico, four people drowned. "We cannot blame the Americans," said Francisco Gonzales, deputy police chief of the town of Luis B. Sanchez. "They did not make the rain and snow that are causing the river to rise...
...pours. Next came a study from the National Research Council, an arm of the august National Academy of Sciences. Its unequivocal conclusion: reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal-burning power plants and factories, such as those in the Midwest, would in fact significantly reduce the acidity in rain, snow and other precipitation that is widely believed to be sapping the life from fresh-water lakes and forests in the Northeast and Canada. The panel did not recommend any specific action. But, concluded Committee Chairman Jack Calvert, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, if industry gets...
...management formula worked so well that the company in the 1960s came to be known as Snow White while its competitors were derisively dubbed the Seven Dwarfs. The dwarfs (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General Electric and RCA) dwindled to five when GE and RCA quit the computer business in the 1970s, and the others are now collectively referred to by their first initials as the BUNCH...
...after another--Christmas, the death of a son, the wedding of the widowed daughter-in-law, and the birth of two babies--Bergman's lens breaks down large group scenes into intimate individual conversations. Laced throughout magnificently decorated scenes and richly furnished rooms in the grandmother's house are snow-covered streets and the racing torrents of a stream; in contrast with such plushness, the mundane home settings seem stark, cold, and isolated...