Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five New Jersey policemen had been convicted of fixing traffic tickets, partly on the basis of their own testimony. But, said the court, their statements "were infected by the coercion inherent" in the threat of being fired. Therefore, "confessions obtained under threat of removal from office" are inadmissible in criminal trials...
...recovered damages from Segelbaum, who had come whizzing off the end of the trail, slicing one of Easter's left leg tendons. But most collisions result in no suit, in part because no rule clearly spells out who is to blame. In Europe, where skiing ranks right behind traffic and industry as the leading everyday accident hazard, the problem is more serious...
...yellow masks impregnated with chemicals to protect them against air polluted by nearby petrochemical plants. In Tokyo, where smog warnings were issued on 154 days last year, policemen in ten heavily polluted districts return to the station house to breathe pure oxygen after each half-hour stint on traffic duty in order to counteract the effects of breathing excessive amounts of carbon monoxide...
...economic growth rate of 10%, helped out by a bumper harvest of wheat, corn and sugar beets, plus a surging production of ships, chemicals and petroleum derivatives. A boom has its price, of course: many Yugoslav cities are for the first time experiencing the agonies of rush-hour traffic jams, packed restaurants and overcrowded shops (workers recently shifted from a sixto a five-day week). Nowadays, Tito can even afford the capitalist luxury of strikes-some 700 of them in the last three years, mostly for higher wages...
...more than 90% of the islands' $150 million annual income. Last year, a record 800,000 vacationers poured into the Bahamas, and by 1968 the total should reach more than 1,000,000 a year, which would leave the islands second only to Puerto Rico in Caribbean tourist traffic. Whether they stay at Lyford Cay, Canadian Millionaire E. P. Taylor's resort on New Providence Island, or at any of the more modest hotels that are budding just about everywhere, the tourists leave a bundle of foreign exchange behind. Last year, for the convenience of its predominantly American...