Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owners know the Christmas rush will include a high quotient of thieves. Gerald Lauritzen, director of Southern California's Stores Protective Association, notes that 35% to 40% of the year's total loss from shoplifting occurs in the final quarter-the direct result, he says, of "increased traffic during the holidays...
...Puget Sound." Robert Harman, professor of geology and geography, charges: "Her statements are either misguided, misinformed, naive or whatever. The bays and estuaries of Puget Sound have a tendency to keep oil trapped permanently. Every marine biologist we know agrees that we should not allow high oil-tanker traffic in those waters...
...strait leading into Puget Sound in easily navigable waters. The oil would then be carried by pipeline around the southern shore of the sound ?some going on up to Cherry Point and the rest flowing to the Midwest. Ideally, the environmentalists would also like to stop all tanker traffic on Puget Sound. Senator Magnuson does not go that far, but he has succeeded in getting a measure passed in Congress and signed by President Carter that in effect prevents supertankers from going to Cherry Point. For the time being, at least, Ray has no plans to try to thwart...
...battle flares on individual bumper stickers: SIERRA CLUB, KISS MY AXE, V. DON'T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO. On fashionable Mercer Island, just across from Seattle, residents have stalled the construction of two bridges for ten years to hold down growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white and ponderosa pine to meet the national building demands. Says Jim Hilbert, a local Teamster official: "Sure, we ought to grow. Create more jobs...
Bengel came out hot in the second half as he banged home a feed from Banks to make it 41-37, and Banks followed with a baseline jumper. Fine hit a reverse lay up in traffic with UMass out ahead 48-41 before the Minutemen began to pull away. Haymore's tap-in gave UMass a 60-47 cushion before he fouled out with a little over five minutes left to play...