Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fast, but sloppy, two-way hockey marked the third period of play. With less than three minutes remaining, Harvard's offense gelled. The line of Watson, John Cochrane and Tom Murray pressured the B.C. zone with solid forechecking...
...coming off a shocking 51-33 loss to Dartmouth the night before, ran up a fast 14-6 lead less than the midway through the first half. Tiger scoring leader Bob Roma did the heavy damage early on, swishing top-of-the-key jumpers like clockwork. But the Princeton zone dealt the most damaging blows, shutting off Harvard's offense...
...Inner Mongolia) that constitute nearly 40% of China's land mass support only 2% of the population. In the west and northwest are immense stretches of desolation, including the sere, uninhabited stretches of desert and the frozen reaches of Tibet. To the north is the wheat and millet zone, a land of brown, eroded hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights to the flow...
...unhappy at the threats to his country's exports and the general economic instability caused by the slumping dollar. Schmidt enlisted the help of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to convince other E.C. leaders that it was time to act. He argued that "a zone of monetary stability" was necessary to revive lagging economic growth, slow inflation and make Europe immune from the dollar's malaise...
...principle last July to try to link their currencies tightly. It was decided last week that each currency would be assigned a set value against all the others and would be allowed to fluctuate only 2¼% above or below this point. In theory this should create a "zone of monetary stability...