Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During this summer's severe drought, Los Angeles has adopted a typically high- tech approach to water use. The city council has passed an ordinance requiring that all new buildings be outfitted with ultra-low-flush toilets that use only % 1.5 gal. of water, far less than the old 3.5-gal. variety. Problem is that the city needs 100,000 of these newfangled devices a month, far more than manufacturers are turning...
Like Crash Davis, the aging catcher in the hit summer movie Bull Durham, most minor-league baseball players ache to make it to the big leagues but spend their careers taking bumpy bus rides between small-town ball parks. They are like writers who aspire to pen the Great American Novel but settle for scripting comic books: their lives are a compromise, an apology for what might have been...
...This summer's pollution of Northeastern beaches and coastal waters is only the latest signal that the planet's life belt, as Cousteau calls the ocean, is rapidly unbuckling. True, there are some farsighted projects here and there to repair the damage, and there was ample evidence in Atlanta last week that the Democrats hope to raise the nation's consciousness about environmental problems. The heightened interest comes not a moment too soon, since marine biologists and environmentalists are convinced that oceanic pollution is reaching epidemic proportions...
...Summer Jazz '88 continues in Marblehead with the music of Clarinetist Dick Johnson and the Swing Shift on Friday at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 80 Washington St. Tickets for the weekly program start at $10.50 in advance and $11.50 at the door. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Call...
...modern dancing is more your style, see the David Gorddon/Pick Up Company's post-modern performance Saturday at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. in Cambridge. The program includes a new piece commissioned by the Harvard Summer Dance Theater, and will include dancer Valda Setterfield. Performances tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and $12. Telephone...