Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coastal zones can often be easily seen; far less clear is the ultimate impact on open seas. The ocean has essentially two ways of coping with pollutants: it can dilute them or metabolize them. Pollutants can be dispersed over hundreds of square miles of ocean by tides, currents, wave action, huge underwater columns of swirling water called rings, or deep ocean storms caused by earthquakes and volcanoes...
...create its wildly popular Star Tours ride, the biggest amusement parks are adapting state-of-the-art technology to do with computers what used to be done with Ferris wheels and roller coasters. Says David Fink, director of research and development for Disney's Imagineering division: "It's the wave of the future for theme parks...
...investment wave, driven by Japan's wealth and the power of the yen, has pushed real estate values beyond the reach of many Australian investors and has put Japanese companies in control of 18 major hotels and resorts. EIE Takahashi, which paid $110 million to acquire Sydney's Regent Hotel, has Australian investments valued at $400 million. Daikyo has poured $560 million into Australian property, including the Gold Coast International Hotel and the Brisbane Hilton...
...chief executive of Massachusetts, you have had an opportunity to affect the national-security policy of the country as a whole, and your record is not reassuring. You have steadily prevented Massachusetts' participation in the Ground Wave Emergency Network, a communications system designed to transmit warnings or presidential orders to the Strategic Air Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command if the nation were under nuclear attack. Of 56 intended GWEN sites around the country, 52 have now been completed. Only your state and Rhode Island continue as holdouts. This Massachusetts gap in the national-warning system is particularly...
...working on rocket motors for future space shuttles. But the companies that supply instruments of war to the nation's generals and admirals fear that the latest scandal will prompt a series of excessively restrictive new laws that will make it even more difficult to do business. "The wave is just now crashing on us," warns Norman Augustine, chairman of Martin Marietta. Just how much damage it does may depend on the defense industry's ability to trim its sails...