Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winds and a brief snow flurry in New York City failed to slow the brisk sale of petunias, azaleas, tulips and hydrangeas; apartment dwellers were determined to bring touches of nature into their steel-and-concrete towers. Bird lovers crowded the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge as they sought to spot the first glossy ibis, dowitchers and lesser yellowlegs of the season. Members of the Appalachian Mountain Club went hunting for fiddlehead ferns...
...jetliner detected what appeared to be a solid form in the black clouds-a great, ominous "hook" in the sky. Since the early 1920s, when mail pilots held up a wet finger to see which way the wind was blowing, U.S. aviation has been trying with increasing success to spot weather hazards and route pilots around them. Today's commercial airlines get a steady stream of up-to-the-minute weather reports, including data gleaned by satellites that scan the earth. Indeed, the combination of advanced meteorological techniques and the toughness of the modern jet airliner has largely eliminated...
...Creation of an "early-warning system" to spot potential inflationary supply and capacity bottlenecks. The Council on Wage and Price Stability will be enlarged to handle this system...
...White and senior captain Bill Kerins (at number two) return to box positions. Senior John Brock and junior George Aitken (12-ft. 10-in. collective height, 424-lb. collective weight) will be back at the power five and six positions, and junior Tom Howes will fill the starboard seven spot...
...have been McCall's own wry tongue that knocked him out of the running. Back in 1974, the Republican was in line to chair the upcoming National Governor's Conference. (Jimmy Carter used his spot as chairman of the Democratic Governor's conference in that year as a launching pad for his own campaign. But after McCall labelled an address by Spiro Agnew as "One rotten, bigoted little speech," his prospects for heading the conference grew dim. The Republicans blacked him out completely after he endorsed the Democratic candidate to succeed him as governor, a post which he could...