Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paulo may be uninhabitable by the year 2000," says Biologist Jacob Zug-man. Along with the city's growing air-and water-pollution problems, he says, "the city noises are assaulting our sanity." Studies show that children (and presumably adults as well) in Sāo Paulo have already lost some acuity of hearing, because as noise increases the ability to hear decreases. Experienced travelers to Rio book rooms in the back of the great hotels that line Copacabana Beach, forsaking the glorious views over the harbor in order to be as far as possible from the amplified autos...
...long last and after due provocation, the U.S. Government rushed in where states have feared to tread. Last week, invoking the Water Quality Act of 1965, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel announced that the Federal Government was proceeding forthwith to "prosecute those who pollute...
...accused polluters have been summoned to appear before the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, where they will be given firm deadlines to devise a plan to clean up their effluents. If they do not meet those deadlines, they can be prosecuted by the Justice Department for contempt of court...
Under intense pressure from the financial community, Kennedy proposed to water down the House's tough tax treatment of long-term capital gains. The House bill would scrap the maximum 25% tax rate on such gains and force investors to hold their stocks and other property for a year instead of six months to qualify for such favored treatment. Kennedy would retain the old rules, but limit the amount of gains to which they could be applied...
Every business student learns in one of his first classes that shipping by water is the cheapest but also the slowest way to move goods. Only those who go on to become freight managers discover that the longest delays nowadays do not occur at sea. Dock congestion around the world has become so common that general cargo ships spend about half their time in port loading, unloading or just waiting-even when the docks are not shut down by a longshoremen's strike...