Word: wave
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Last week the black leaders' pentup discontent broke out in a wave of complaints that forced the President to make an extraordinary defense of his urban policies before a black audience and later at a televised press conference. "I have no apologies," Carter gamely insisted. "We haven't done everything we would like to do, nor have we done everything that we are going to do." At the same time, he made plain that he considered much of the criticism to be outright demagoguery...
...months ago, Washington's Ambassador to the U.N. infuriated Swedes by calling them "terrible racists." He later explained, a bit lamely, that his comment was just a general observation about the presence of racism everywhere. This summer, however, Sweden has been hit by a small but ugly wave of racial incidents, which suggests that America's most celebrated un-diplomat may have been nearer to the mark than Sweden's defenders had thought. In June a rat pack of young Swedish ruffians clashed with a group of Assyrian immigrants from the Middle East in Södert...
...current wave of criticism comes at a time when the bar should, in theory, be more amenable to progress and new ideas than ever before. Nearly half the 218,000 A.B.A. members are now under 36 years old, and recent meetings have approved such once scandalous proposals as the decriminalization of marijuana possession. Says John Douglas, past president of the District of Columbia Bar: "There's more reform now, but it still isn't coming fast enough...
...heat-wave sales promised to snap the nation's air-conditioning industry out of a three-year slump that had been caused by successive summers of exceptionally clement temperatures. The industry's last good year was the scorcher of '73, when perspiring consumers bought a grand total of 5.3 million room-size air-conditioning units and 2.8 million central cooling systems. Then sales plunged, reaching a low of 4.2 million conditioners of all types in 1975. The manufacturers, led by five big firms-Carrier, Trane, Fedders, Lennox and General Electric-have also seen their air-conditioner sales...
...medical schools now use a rephrased version of the oath to circumvent the abortion issue.) The procedure involves the destruction of a form of human life-life in utero, but life nonetheless. By the sixth week, almost all of the human organs are in place; by the eighth, brain-wave activity can be detected. The right-to-life lobby displays pictures of those tiny hands and feet, those grisly fetuses pickled in jars; but bad taste does not disable their argument...