Word: tides
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...satisfied when President Clinton approved a plan to reduce logging by nearly two-thirds on federal lands -- and put habitats of the spotted owl off limits -- while providing more than $1 billion to retrain loggers and help tide over their communities. The timber industry attacked the compromise, saying it would devastate struggling businesses. And environmentalists complained it would permit cutting across large areas...
...announcement of the election suggests the tide of history is running against you and the National Party...
...times, Restic must feel like he's standing on a sandbar as the tide comes...
...What exists of citizen confidence is being swamped by arising tide of scandalous stories and dismaying reports," Barrett said...
...members for the first time, supplementing the Names who take on unlimited liability. Also proposed: 30% cost reductions to streamline operations, and a centrally run company using set-aside reserves to reinsure policies that were underwritten before 1986. This device is designed to protect new investors from an expected tide of claims on old U.S. asbestos- and pollution-related cases. Otherwise the plan did little to pacify thousands of angry, financially ruined Names in litigation over losses they believe were caused by negligence, incompetence and even fraud rather than bad luck. They say they will fight on, plan...