Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the summer, said Akey. The six northeastern Massachusetts communities within the 10-mile federally-mandated evacuation zone are popular summer resort areas. Traffic jams during the summer would prevent people from getting to safety if a nuclear accident were to occur, said Akey, adding that even in the winter, when the population is 50,000, evacuation would be difficult because there are no major access routes in the area...
...Road salt for winter highway maintenance, parking lot dust, and vehicle exhausts contribute to potentially hazardous materials in the water," said Flaherty's assistant...
...erudite and passionately indignant professor of comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego, the only answer is c. In case anyone thinks he is making too much of Salammbo's gyrations, Dijkstra wants us to know that a painting of the priestess by Charles Allen Winter was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1898 and a sculpted version by Jean-Antoine-Marie Idrac won a place of honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It was, in other words, a scene that appealed all too strongly to the roving Victorian...
...looked for all the world like a Communist version of the old czarist days, when the most fashionable people of European society were entertained in % glorious style at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. There, amid the winter grayness of Moscow, was a mega-gaggle of the most famous Western cultural and scientific notables, appearing about as classy as one can in an avowedly classless society. But their sudden arrival was hardly because of a glitzy jet-set party. Rather, the celebrities were in town for a three-day forum grandly billed as a conference "For a Nuclear-Free World...
...Congress, the media and his own party. Yet the President clings to him even in the face of his wife's obvious distaste. Don Regan, so bumbling and insensitive in high profile, has reduced his visibility dramatically, a move that has at last become him in his ill-starred winter. / But it may be too late. Fair or unfair, there is a national perception that Regan has guided both the President and himself mindlessly toward humiliation. For the moment, he refuses to leave on his own, fostering the unfortunate image of two stubborn old men huddled together in ignorance...