Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombs that are literally steered to targets by television, laser beams and other means. With their pinpoint accuracy, they could stop many of the Soviet tanks that would spearhead a Warsaw Pact invasion. Although the critical guidance mechanisms of these new devices still do not work well when bad weather or smokescreens limit visibility, Collins was certain that "we will solve these and other problems, and the Russians know it." He feared, however, that "if we are going to have a crunch with the Soviets in Europe, it's likely to be in the early 1980s before we have...
...COLD WEATHER. Spring arrived Monday at 6:34 p.m., but the aftereffects of record-breaking cold and snow will continue to push up prices. Main reason: reduced food supplies caused by transportation snarls. The inflationary impact will be over by year's end, but the residue-about a tenth of a point on the inflation rate-is expected to hang on until the beginning of next winter...
...clouds of the summer. There is a very good reason. Most of the summer people come to the Cape for the parties or the beaches. But the Cape has great natural beauty which many of them miss. And late in November or early in April the weather is nice, there are no crowds and this natural beauty shines through. I think it is the best time of year...
Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco has been facing some rough weather in the sunny Caribbean. Charged with embezzling $224 million from the now defunct I.O.S. Ltd. mutual fund empire, Vesco fled from the U.S. to Costa Rica in 1972. He is now ensconced as a gentleman farmer on a 4,000-acre country estate with his wife and children. Threatened with deportation once Costa Rica's President-elect, Rodrigo Carazo, takes office in May, Vesco applied for citizenship, listing his nationality as Italian (he was born in Detroit but claimed the nationality of his father). Trouble is, Italy and Costa...
...scarcely surprising. For since the 1960s, greater Washington has evolved into a privileged ghetto, home of a pampered class all but immune to the disheartening tantrums of the economic weather. A few areas may look better off in certain statistics, but none can boast of an affluence quite like Washington's. It is effortless, persisting, secure. True, in the 71% black District of Columbia, poverty persists, along with the core city's reputation for street crime. Even so, black unemployment in D.C. is a third less than the U.S. average...