Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concentrated Devastation. Mid-July temperature records were cracked in more than a dozen cities, making newspaper weather listings read like hospital-ward fever charts. Before the heat wave began to break at week's end, New York sizzled through nine straight days of above-90° temperatures; Boston, six; Chicago, eleven; Washington, ten. In a normal year, about 175 Americans die from the effects of hot weather. This year the count is just beginning, but the latest Red Cross estimate is that several hundred have died from the heat-and it's a long, long time from...
While it did not match the flood in concentrated devastation, the heat wave caused woeful damage. In Minneapolis, about a hundred marchers and spectators at a summer parade were treated for heat prostration. With the heat wave came an atmospheric inversion that sent air pollution indexes soaring in many cities. The result: New York's weekly death rate jumped by nearly...
...Ethiopians fear that the loss of Eritrea could become the first important step in the disintegration of their country. They have been training 200,000 peasant militiamen to make a sort of human-wave assault on Eritrea, reinforcing the 25,000 hard-pressed regular troops on duty in the province. But the Eritreans are far more highly motivated. "We didn't see any reason to fight and die here," explained one of the 500 Ethiopians who surrendered during their recent losing battle for the city of Tessenei. "The Eritreans wanted a victory, and they got it. We want...
...quarrels in Washington these days about the health of the American economy, there is one element of the business scene so bracing that Commerce Department officials become ecstatic when they talk about it. The flow of foreign funds into the U.S. has crested in a seemingly endless wave that is nourishing local economies from ailing New York to the striving Sunbelt states. Since 1971 total foreign direct investment has more than doubled from $13.7 billion to an estimated $30 billion in 1976. The Western Europeans, in particular, have been snapping at every investment opportunity-Midwestern farms to outright acquisitions...
...feels that Colin's "friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is past cheering. He is a human cork, with matching brain, who could bob merrily on a tidal wave of disaster. Grief is all Greek...