Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Islanders. Each weekday morning when Attorney Charles Moriarty, 50, a former state senator, boards the 7:10 ferry for a 35-minute commute to a glass-and-steel skyscraper in Seattle, he leaves behind what his wife Marion calls "a paradise"-Restoration Point on Puget Sound's Bainbridge Island. Founded in 1890 as a summer retreat for a wealthy group of Ivy League sailing buffs from the East, the point is now the duchy of their descendants, whose 16 stately homes, gardens, tennis courts and nine-hole golf course nestle among towering cedars and firs. Seattlites have nicknamed this...
...lawyer, has been offering urban solutions since the 1950s, when he headed the citizens' group that conceived Metro, a regional agency that has city-county jurisdiction. Long before the Federal Government started spending money for such projects, Metro mounted a campaign in the 1950s to clean up Puget Sound and Lake Washington, one of the city's aquatic play grounds. Metro later took over and revived the countywide transportation network, creating a park-ride system to bring in suburbanites, a weekend bus service to ski areas and free fares to the downtown areas...
With all this, more is coming. Jim Ellis has proposed a plan for the Puget Sound area all the way from Vancouver, 143 miles to the north, to Olympia, 60 miles south. He envisions public financing of open spaces around urban centers, state aid to restore housing in the cities and lure back still more suburbanites, and the strengthening of downtown Seattle as the area's commercial center. Says Ellis, exuding the optimism of the frontier, "American communities can be places of beauty, civility and fulfillment - but they happen only when people make them happen...
...policy advisers had a chance to assess the ploy and reply, Eilts learned that Sadat was planning to propose such a conference in a speech to Egypt's national assembly. A message was dispatched to Egypt asking Sadat to hold off announcing the summit until the U.S. could sound out other Arab states and the Soviet Union. The request either arrived too late or was ignored by Sadat...
...whales and dolphins such friendly and seemingly sensitive creatures, never known to attack a human being unless harpooned? It may be that echolocation, an adaptation to the eternal darkness of the ocean's depths, accounts for the unique personality of the whale. In echolocation, the whale projects high frequency sounds forwards. The sound waves bounce off objects, then return to the sound chamber in his forehead. He can tell the distance of the object by the strength of the returning sound wave. But these high frequency sound waves penetrate skin as well as water. Dr. John Sutphen, interested in diagnosing...