Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeal, and Hazelwood was released. The FBI is looking into whether he can be charged with criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act. According to a report in the Anchorage Times last week, Hazelwood may have done more than just hand the ship over to an uncertified third mate, a serious enough lapse in itself. To change sea-lanes, he had set the ship on a course that pointed it toward treacherous Bligh Reef, the Times reported, then allegedly left it on autopilot without telling anyone. Thus, when the third mate realized he was headed for disaster and tried...
...would be nice to add more acreage to Alaska's national preserves, but that is neither practical nor fair to the state. More than a third of its 368 million acres are already designated as national parks, wildlife refuges and forests, and thus protected from development to varying degrees. But it is practical to increase the size of official wilderness areas, where development of any kind is prohibited, since most of these areas already lie within existing parks and forests...
...U.S.A. and Canada Studies, laid the Kremlin's newly realistic approach squarely on three forces: money, perestroika and the need for Western assistance. Said Trofimenko: "First of all, we should spend less money abroad. Second, there should be a concentration of people's efforts on our internal situation. Third, we are trying to improve relations with the West...
...Soviets appear to appreciate that the world out there has changed. "We have stopped using the Third World as a battleground for capitalism or socialism," says Trofimenko. The new battlefields are more economic and scientific than ideological and military. To play on those fields, the U.S.S.R. has to negotiate arms limits, pull back from regional confrontation and permit political change among its satellites...
...right now, in boom and blossom time on the Potomac, Bush has astonished the Beltway punditry by achieving resounding job approval (54% last week in a TIME/CNN poll, down slightly but still substantial). All the while he has been shrinking his nightly TV presence by as much as one-third compared with his predecessor's, and often he is nowhere to be seen on the front pages of the nation's newspapers...