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Captain Cervilla called Saturday's tidal wave victory "a good indicator of how we're going to do in the future...
During the summer, Cambridge interest groups and residents began to seriously question the wisdom of ripping open the Cambridge Common to build a garage needed for the prospected Kennedy Center flow of visitors. That flow--or tidal wave--is expected to peak at well above one million tourists per year when the complex opens...
...food prices and property taxes, money seems a bit looser. Some major economic indicators are up again-the second-quarter gross national product registered the best three-month gain in six years. As the squeeze lessened, airlines were reporting new records of passenger travel. The highways glistened with a tidal flow of Americans getting away; truck drivers complained that the roads were glutted with campers. State parks and national forests were overrun-an ambiguous blessing...
Many of his suits are based on various state and federal laws that forbid dredging and filling operations in tidal lands without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. Though tides wash over almost all of the mangrove swamps, developers often neglect to get such a permit; then Matthews sues, sometimes with strange results. In 1970, for instance, the Lutgert Construction Co. started a giant beachfront development involving the dredging and filling of 1.65 million cu. yds. of tidal lands in Naples. Matthews began writing protest letters in all directions and finally got the Corps of Engineers to demand...
...with a Talmudic precision - becomes the last pure arena of sheer individualistic intellect: the mind in combat with the odds. Guetti's scenes at Aqueduct and Monmouth Park, at craps tables and poker parties, have a tense authenticity. Thousands of dollars roll in and out with a blind, tidal rhythm. Meantime, Hatcher's wife, already effectively widowed, drifts off to find a life outside of her husband's elaborate and demanding fantasies...