Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year, with a budget of $7 million to maintain order, Indian authorities have erected control towers so that they can survey the milling crowds and prevent disasters like the 1954 stampede in which 513 people died. They have ordered that all pilgrims must be inoculated against cholera, and 1,000 workers have been assigned just to spray antiseptics. Beggars have been banned. All day and all night blaring hymns on the loudspeaker system are interrupted by announcements about missing people (2,000 of them...
...evidence of Albert Parry's passionately indignant survey of atrocities from Robespierre's Reign of Terror to the mayhem of today's Middle East, terrorism has always been an equal-opportunity employer: outrages were-and still are-performed by people of every race, ideology and class...
...Banana Breakfast," an "empirical" survey of banana pancakes, scones and kreplach...
...notice was posted on the wall outside offices of the U.S. Geological Survey on Dec. 30, 1976. Issued by six USGS scientists, it predicted that an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale would occur within a 15 kilometer (9.3 mile) radius of a ranch near Hollister, Calif., during January 1977. On Jan. 6, a quake measuring 3.2 shook the ground about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from Hollister. This successful, unpublicized prediction shows that scientists are moving closer to their goal of reliable earthquake forecasts (TIME cover, Sept. 1, 1975). But predicting how people will react to public forecasts...
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