Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, many tanker accidents are the result of human error, and there is real reason for concern over the uneven experience and training of tanker captains and crews (see box). What to do? The usual complaint is that worldwide shipping is so diffuse that effective regulation is impossible. As Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson put it last week: "I don't see how you can have control when you have American-owned ships insured by the British, run by the Greeks, with Italian officers and a Chinese crew...
...difficulties of Malory's spelling and use of archaic words." Throughout The Acts Steinbeck searches for a voice in which to recount the stories; he finds several, none of which are adequate in themselves, no two of which mesh harmoniously on the page. The result is a composite and uneven piece of work, by turns news analysis, history, psychological explanation, novel, poetry and myth. Malory managed to weave these threads together, but Steinbeck hasn...
...some pretty high-speed spinning in the grave. The Boston Repertory Theatre features a contemporary version of The Misanthrope; the production inspires antipathy not towards mankind in general but towards one in particular; the director. Scapino! at the Loeb fares much better; George Hamlin's skilled direction turns an uneven collection of actors into a smooth comic troupe...
Government statisticians were quick to note that despite the lull, the economy is still expanding, if slowly. They note that the index was undoubtedly distorted by the four-week strike against Ford Motor Co., and also that its record as a measure of future business trends is uneven. Three times since 1948 the index fell for two months in a row but no economic downturn followed. On six other occasions, however, two or more consecutive months of decline in the index did signal an overall drop in economic activity...
...second mile-and-one-half of the Van Cortland course was hilly and uneven, and this caused problems for the Harvard team as the pace began to quicken. Campbell and sophomore Marc Meyer suffered in particular, and began to drop back even as they both continued to run one of their strongest races of the season...