Word: whiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That would benefit the U.S. steel indus try and the economy of several ports. But environmentalists fear that disruption of the lakes' whiter ice cover would cause damage to fish and plant life. The energy crisis has made state governments less resistant to suggestions that gas and oil explorations- with their potential for pollution- be undertaken in the Great Lakes basin. (Canada already takes natural gas from Lake Erie.) These problems are not insoluble, but they will require a subtlety of technology and policy quite different from the massive input of dollars that cured many of the lakes...
...loyalty of many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence master and even...
...breakers, caressed by potpourri-fragrant trade winds, usually blessed in some parts by 350 days a year of that still obedient sun. Maui is a microcosm of the world's landscapes and climates. Temperatures range from subarctic to subtropic; rainfall from 3 in. to 400 in. (but this whiter the whole island was drenched with a near record rainfall); the terrain from soaring peaks, impenetrable jungles and black lava promontories to viridian uplands, gossamer falls and beaches of bleached sand...
...There are no snakes on the islands.) Maui's waters teem with more than 700 species of fish, perhaps 20% of which are to be found only in Hawaii. The island's most faithful visitor is the humpback whale, the sportive, 40-ton leviathan that returns each whiter to the Lahaina roadstead to play and calve -and enthrall the onlooker...
...taking in $1,000 a day. Lobsang Khendup, 46, an enterprising wood-crafter in San Francisco, supports a wife and three sons on annual street sales of $22,000. "What better job is there?" asks Ellie Cohen, 29, who sells her own home-baked goods in Miami in the whiter and in Portsmouth, N.H., in the summer. " work for myself. If I get tired of Miami, I can set up business some place else without a lot of hassle...