Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retain profitability, worsening the astronomic 25 percent unemployment rate in a country that has no Social Security or state welfare. Professor Mendelsohn uses as justification the fact that Black organizations are willing to make sacrifices to achieve their goal. While this is true it appears to hold water only in the theoretical statement, as evidenced by the recent strike by GM workers after the company's withdrawal. As Mr. Wilson Jonas, a former union shop steward at Ford, said "For me as a leader to say I'm for disinvestment, knowing that I'm sending thousands of people into darkness...
...Tonight was a good night because it gave us a chance to see how some of the other swimmers could do," Costin Scalise said. "Some members of the team were a little tired in the water, but I was happy to see the rest picking up the slack...
Ecologists have been working for years to improve the quality of the Rhine's water, but that project has now been set back at least a decade. Indeed, as the bad news mounted, even the river's legend seemed in peril. In a front-page cartoon, the German weekly Die Zeit showed the mythic Lorelei looking lost and forlorn. The reason: chemicals were making the maiden's hair fall...
...recent engineering report says the bridge is "functioning with marginal, decayed components" and that "rehabilitation must be undertaken." Even an untutored eye can see the sag of the long wooden trusses that hold the roadway high above the water. Graton's eye is hardly untutored, though; he is the foremost expert in the world on the construction and restoration of covered bridges. With his son Arnold, he has built or repaired some three dozen of them...
Indeed, no other individual or duo has glided with such felicitous daring across frozen water. "It is the way they get from Point A to Point B," says Andris Toppe, their ballet master. "A lot of skaters will skate to A, do a little trick, then travel to B and do another trick. It's boring. But the way Jayne and Chris cover the distance is choreographed. You are never bored...