Word: containment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, voting will require considerable stamina. Some Democrats will have to travel 30 miles to a polling place -there is only one in each county -and wait up to two hours for their ballots, which can be a yard long and contain as many as 800 names. Just to make matters more complicated, the candidates will be listed in alphabetical order, with nothing to indicate whether they support Carter or Kennedy. As a result, each camp is passing out lists of delegates to supporters, so they will know how to mark their ballots...
...limped home with fewer than 90 wins. Even the great Carew is not playing up to par. This year his batting average sagged to .317, mostly because his hand has not yet healed. Still, there are bright spots, which management hates to mention because every silver lining seems to contain a cloud. For one, Southern California now has something to do besides hunt for gas stations: Angels' attendance was up nearly 50% from last year to 2,523,575, one of the best home gates in league history. For another, some of those ailing pitchers may be back...
These tar sands contain reserves which exceed the total oil resources of Saudi Arabia, Lougheed said. He invited American participation in the development of these resources...
Even fresh fruits and vegetables--especially fresh fruits and vegetables--often contain many dangerous pesticide residues. The number one pesticide in the U.S., toxaphene, encompassing one-fifth of all pesticide use, has long been known to cause cancer, and the Environmental Protection Agency found in 1975 that it drastically alters bone growth and bone composition in fish, birds and animals. Yet it is still applied to livestock and just about every food crop in the nation, including soybeans and a wide variety of fruits, even though EPA has banned its use on lettuce and cabbage crops, which are less lucrative...
These defenses were an example of extraordinary bacterial cunning. Along with their regular complement of DNA, of genes, the single-celled creatures are endowed with extra bits of genetic material called plasmids, which often provide a remarkable capability. The plasmids contain instructions enabling the microbe to produce enzymes that either destroy or immobilize the most powerful antibiotics. Floating freely within the cells, the plasmids can be transferred from one microbe to another. When this happens, a bacterium once vulnerable to a drug can acquire a resistance to it and, more important, pass that genetic defense on to its descendants...