Word: tides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ocean," Spielberg says, "was a real pain in the ass." While the technical crew scurried about under water, the director and his company waited out the vagaries of tide topside. "With all the planning we did," Spielberg recalls, "nobody thought much about the currents or anything at all about the waves." A strong current would cause equipment boats to drift away. Water color would change, the rhythm of the waves would fluctuate. "I could have shot the movie in the tank," Spielberg says, "or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same...
...Murders. But Evanston, like many other previously tranquil schools, has fallen victim to a rising tide of school violence across the nation. This spring a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency reported that there are now more than 100 murders in public schools each year, and 70,000 assaults on teachers. It estimated that school vandalism costs $500 million a year-about the amount that is spent on textbooks...
Thus when the miracle happened, and the reformist streams of the initially Party-controlled Prague Spring of 1968 overflowed into a nationwide tide of unrest, the intellectuals, and writers in particular, were, by their past experience, often best equipped to help wipe out the Stalinist garbage accumulated over 20 years. Overnight the Prague literary journal Literarni Listy became the most avidly read paper in the country and its contributors, the spokesmen for popular aspirations (an understandable situation in a country where no legal means of opposition were available, writers and journalists had access to the media recently freed from censorship...
...world-to no one's surprise. Demands that domestic businesses be shielded against import competition always become more strident during times of spreading unemployment. The real surprise is that despite the severity of the global recession, free traders so far have held the dikes successfully against the protectionist tide; nothing resembling the tariff wars of the 1930s has occurred. Import-limiting actions, as distinct from talk, have been few and scattered. For example, Finland now requires importers to post large bonds, and the Japanese have persuaded several trading partners to limit, voluntarily and temporarily, some shipments to Japan...
There was not the faintest hope that Saigon could yet reverse the tide of the battle; the military situation in favor of the Communists was unquestionably irreversible. Nor was there any chance that the U.S. might intervene to prevent a Communist takeover. After more than two decades of various degrees of American involvement in Viet Nam, President Ford last week declared with utter finality that for the U.S., the war was over. A massive Communist force, which had closed in on Saigon from all sides with staggering speed, lay waiting after abruptly halting its advance. Unmistakably, the battlefield lull meant...