Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the waters." By 1969, after nearly two decades of economic boom, the 19th century English poet's prediction seemed to be coming all too true. To slake the thirst of new industries on the mainland, some 20,000 wells were dug, tapping the water table that helps cushion Venice's more than 100 canal-cut islands. As a result, the fabled city of palaces and churches, frescoes and piazzas, began to sink at a frightening rate, gauged by scientists to be an average of .5 cm (.2 in.) per year. Unless draconian measures were taken, the Adriatic...
...record tenure in office. As Georgia's top election official, he was often at the volatile center of political disputes. When newly elected Governor Eugene Talmadge died in 1946 before taking office, Fortson kept pretenders to the throne at bay by hiding the state seal under his wheelchair cushion until the succession battle was resolved. In 1968 Fortson again demonstrated his determination by defying the wishes of Segregationist Governor Lester Maddox and lowering state flags to mark the death of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King...
...major imponderable is the pickup in business spending for new plant and equipment. Corporations are expected to increase capital investments this year by 16%, but the rise is a mixed blessing. If, as expected, capital spending continues fairly strong through the early part of the recession, it will help cushion the slump. But if a capital investment boom develops, it could delay the recession and ultimately make it worse...
...Bill Murray "Somebody stop this storybook ending!" finale would not have been possible without the unconscious comeback stick work of the less-than-peaceful Quakers. Harvard had quashed a 6-6 tie in the eighth with three runs to five starter Larry Brown the cushion he needed for the final inning...
Sola Mahoney led a Harvard sweep in the triple jump with a 46-ft., 10 1/2-in. leap. "The triple jump was the turning point," coach Bill McCurdy said after the meet. "The sweep gave us the early cushion we needed...