Word: surveying
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Alarmed, most of the 500 residents of the nearby fishing village of Yakutat gathered in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall for a briefing by scientists who have flocked to study what the U.S. Geological Survey has called a "world-class natural event." By last week, waters of the stream-fed fjord, renamed Russell Lake, had risen more than 62 ft., and were still climbing, covering the beaches and then the steep, alder-lined banks...
...become the world's business leader. But it was too good to last. Last week Japan regained the top spot in a ranking of the most competitive industrial countries compiled annually by the European Management Forum, a nonprofit foundation based in Geneva. The EMF rankings are based on a survey of 5,000 corporate officials and economists, who make assessments using such guideposts as economic dynamism, political stability and the degree of state interference...
This month Sea Cliff will embark on a mission for the U.S. Geological Survey in the Gorda Ridge off the coast of California and Oregon. Descending to 13,000 ft., it will enable scientists to get a close-up look at nodules of manganese and other metals that build up near geologically active breaks in the earth's crust. In the future, even more versatile undersea craft will be used to mine these minerals and bring them to the surface...
...human level, many Hungarians have proved unable to handle the pressures that go with the freedom to succeed or fail. An estimated 15% of the work force takes sedatives on the job. A survey published in March concluded that half of all workers have trouble falling asleep at night as a result of financial worries. By 1980, one-third of the men eligible for military service had been rejected because of neuroses. Hungary traditionally has had a high suicide rate; it now leads the world with 43.5 self-inflicted deaths per 100,000 people, one-third more than runner...
There are pure painters and there are American painters, and James Rosenquist, a survey of whose work since 1961 fills a floor of New York City's Whitney Museum this summer, is decidedly one of the latter. What other artist in the past 25 years has scanned the American scene more faithfully or brought such a compelling if fractured narrative out of its weird slippages and layerings of imagery? In the heyday of pop art, there was more stress on Rosenquist's means and less on his ends. One saw the devices from advertising, the billboard manner; one felt affronted...