Word: tides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do these lucky people have in common? They are united in a pact of longevity by the way their bodies process a waxy, odorless substance present in every human being: cholesterol. Cholesterol? The nemesis of every health- conscious person? The object of a swelling tide of medical diatribes against overeating and underexercising? The primary cause of coronary heart disease, which last year caused 1.5 million heart attacks and 550,000 deaths in the U.S.? How can this be? Isn't cholesterol the enemy...
...defeat that the new Congress will deal to President-elect George Bush will be an increase in the national minimum wage. Ronald Reagan successfully fought attempts to raise the wage floor, which has languished at $3.35 per hour since 1981, but Bush will not be able to resist the tide...
...Nicaraguan refugees pouring into Honduras once could count on shelter in U.N.-sponsored refugee camps. Now newcomers who are caught are forcibly returned. Hondurans, with an unemployment rate of about 40%, insist they cannot accommodate this job-hungry tide of dispossessed Nicaraguans. With 12,000 armed contras sitting in Honduran base camps, some Hondurans feel the U.S. has dragged them into a war that they never chose to fight. Though Washington understandably becomes annoyed when officials in Honduras and other Central American countries privately implore the U.S. to act tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support...
...Democratic party is at a crossroads, having totalled less than 20 states in the last three presidential elections. It must decide either to unabashedly pronounce its liberalism and appeal to voters' class interests, or it must choose to go with the tide and look to its Southern conservative members to bring it victory. In the first option, there is great danger. In the second, little inspiration...
...nearly 12 ft. thick, 65 ft. wide and from 55 ft. to 88 ft. high, depending on sea depth. When not in use, the boxes will be filled with water and attached by a hinge to a concrete foundation buried in the lagoon bed. If an abnormally high tide threatens the city, the water inside the gates can be pumped out or displaced by compressed air. Suddenly buoyant, the gates swing on their hinges like the jaws of a crocodile, rising to a 45 degrees angle, with the top about 3 ft. above the surface of the waves. After...