Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national thermal efficiency standard will be set for all new residential and commercial structures. If builders or home buyers seek any kind of federal financing, they will have to install standard insulation, weather stripping, storm windows and doors and caulking. Potential savings in oil consumption by 1977: about 120,000 bbl. a day. By 1985: 2.3 million...
...Rockefeller's from school days, he took part in forming the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA) during World War II. As Under Secretary of State, he helped concoct the false cover story that Francis Gary Powers' U-2 reconnaissance plane was merely on a weather-scouting flight when shot down by the Soviets...
...Israelis might decide to launch a pre-emptive strike. Or the Arabs might attack if they become frustrated by the failures of diplomacy to get Israel to relinquish territory occupied in 1967 and grant some of the Palestinian demands. The most critical time will be late spring, when the weather is right for military operations, and the mandates expire for the U.N. buffer forces now stationed in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Short of war, both the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to continue their cross-border terrorist and commando raids...
...water in the area. None of the early navigators made any complaints about it. The whole Spanish Main went through it." Says University of Miami Oceanographer Claes Rooth: "If there ever was a pseudo topic, it's the Bermuda triangle." Rooth attributes many of the disappearances to violent weather occurring suddenly over the warm water in the triangle. "It is like being hit by a tornado," he says. "Nice weather conditions in the area lull you into a sense of false security." Other experts point out that the swift current of the Gulf Stream quickly carries debris far from...
...gave Sir Seretse a landslide election victory in his bid for another five-year term last October, and by Western aid programs. Canada has financed a dam in the northeast to store scarce water, and the U.S. has loaned $16 million for the building of a 200-mile all-weather road to Botswana's northern border. Britain, Sweden, Norway and the United Nations have committed $31 million in grants and loans, mostly for manpower training and rural development...