Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make the wildlife preserve even more flourishing, the South Korean government allocates some of its $400,000-a-year conservation budget for grain, which is spread by South Korean soldiers along their side of the DMZ. As a result, birds especially have come to prosper in the DMZ. In winter, members of the Korean Council for Bird Preservation like nothing better than to stalk the southern edge of the zone in hopes of catching glimpses of two particularly treasured species. One of them is the Japanese ibis, a long-necked, crimson and white bird that has been so reduced...
...birders" who ever get a chance to see these magnificent creatures close up is Zoologist Won Pyong Oh, director of the Institute of Ornithology at South Korea's Kyung Hee University. Five times each winter, Won, 52, makes a well-advertised venture into the DMZ under the watchful eyes of soldiers on both sides of the line in order to observe and photograph the monogamous cranes in their elaborate mating rituals, which include wing flapping, bows and leaps into the air. "The Americans get very nervous," explains Won, who makes his perch right on the Military Demarcation Line...
...became known throughout France during the harsh winter of 1954, when he waged a one-man battle to force the government to provide emergency housing for the poor. So great was the public response that the Premier, Joseph Laniel, later said he half-suspected the abbe was planning a revolution and might have succeeded had he tried...
...back at work, Eckstein thinks real G.N.P. will show a catch-up surge of 7.5% from April through June. For the year, real G.N.P. is still likely to rise around 4.5%. The trick will be to keep inflation from speeding up in the spring as it did in the winter...
Certainly there are exceptions. New York City, still seeking federal aid to fend off bankruptcy, was forced last week to find money to give a raise to transit workers and avert a threatened subway and bus strike. And the cost of removing last winter's mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest. Not so, however, in the Sunbelt. For example, Houston, reveling in a record surplus of $24 million, is budgeting to train 500 new cops this year, more than triple the average for the past decade...