Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A Harvard School of Public Health study cited the WIC program as a measure that markedly reduced the incidents of low-birth-weight babies. A separate study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health found that infant mortality rates were one-third lower among WIC children when compared to infants...
The worst in many ways. Crop losses, particularly those of citrus fruit in the Sunbelt, could total $500 million. Deaths directly and indirectly attributable to the two-week freeze numbered nearly 500. Tens of thousands of lives were disrupted.
Across the U.S., the Arctic downdraft froze bodies of water large and small, sometimes with dire results. The Snake River in Idaho was stopped up by a ten-mile-long ice jam, threatening floods, and Louisiana's Red River froze up for the first time this century. Coast Guard...
The banks had one reason for calling major national default "unacceptable" during the '70s: How could entire nations, with tens of millions of citizens, default on billion-dollar loans Now their reason for comfort is different, as stated by Platten. They've gone so far that the Western governments cannot...
Democratic party leaders dutifully pronounced their outrage at the latest Administration slur. But few even took the time to rebuke Meese with specifics. Most forgot to point out, for example, that some 20 million Americans depend on food stamps to eat and that tens of thousands more--who don't...