Word: tides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behaving much more cautiously than in the past, their liberalism laced with heavy doses of conservatism. Such a stalwart right-wing leader as National Review Publisher William Rusher believes that Jimmy Carter is so conservative that he might even be worth supporting over a more liberal Republican. With the tide running in their favor, the challenge for the conservatives is to translate success with current, perhaps transient issues into an enduring political movement that will prevail at the polls...
...capture of the shrimp boat and its Spanish-speaking crew this month was the largest single drug seizure ever made in New England, but it was only the latest sign that drug smuggling along the region's seacoast has swelled to a high and threatening tide. In the past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass...
...Hardest hit was the Country Club Plaza area, developed in 1922 as the nation's first planned shopping center. There the floodwaters smashed storefronts and swept cars along like toys. At the Plaza III, flooded with 5 ft. of water in 14 minutes, the bartender escaped the onrushing tide by ducking behind his bar. As he ran for the street, the glass wall behind the bar collapsed. By the time he found his wife at the nearby restaurant where she worked as a waitress, their new car was gone-washed away into the creek...
...granting as yet unspecified hiring incentives to employers. In addition, the nation's central bank would lower interest rates slightly to encourage business spending. All that, said Fukuda, should boost the annual growth rate to 6.7% by next spring, from 5.9% forecast currently, ease unemployment and stem the tide of bankruptcies, now running at 1,500 a month...
...effort to stem the tide of new cases, health authorities are now using more of other insecticides, such as Malathion and propoxur to kill DDT-resistant mosquitoes-but the insects are already showing signs of developing resistance to the newer chemicals. Thus the most practical response now to malaria's new challenge, says Dr. Robert Kaiser, of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, is a return to the pre-DDT approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser...