Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...litany of Western complaints goes back to the beginning of the Carter presidency-the "hit list" of Western water projects, the increasing intrusion of the federal bureaucracy on state and local laws, the general view that the Carter Administration is bent on creating an "energy sewer'' in the West for the greater benefit of the Eastern seaboard...
...needed as a labor force for new industries that are planned for the Negev. Moreover, the well-equipped, high production moshavim require large tracts and expensive irrigation. And, as one senior official bluntly told TIME's Lesley Hazleton, "I'm not giving good Jewish land and water to Arabs...
...Shepherd bore down on the lighter Sierra and struck a glancing blow. Explained Watson: "I tried to take off the harpoon." Then, after making a 360° turn, the avenging trawler opened up to twelve knots and hit again, this time punching a gaping hole amidships. Taking on water, Sierra limped into port, and, according to Watson, should be out of action for months, if not permanently. Watson's own ship suffered nothing more than a battered...
Long the butt of jokes, placebos (from the Latin for "I shall please") are one of the oldest, most useful and least understood "remedies" in the doctor's satchel. Generally they come as pills of milk sugar or talc or as injections of salt water. Such substances are considered pharmacologically inert, incapable of eliciting a response when prescribed in reasonable quantities. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that placebos help as many as 30% or 40% of patients with real enough ills, including postoperative pain, migraines, coughs, seasickness, arthritis, ulcers, hypertension, hay fever, even warts...
...previous claims of greatness and clears the way for new ones. The melodies of these nine songs are insistent, instantly captivating. The lyrics veer between recollections of the mythic past to reveries of violence, from lines like haiku ("Aurora borealis/ The icy sky at night/ Paddles cut the water/ In a long and hurried flight") to verbal lasers of lancing irony ("Hard to believe that love is free now/ Welfare mothers make better lovers"). Young is in such thorough command throughout that he can jump a century between lines of a verse, begin a song like Powderfinger as a folk...