Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...swiftly as possible. But the sheer magnitude of the task, plus some inexcusable lack of coordination, slowed the process to a maddening crawl for people who had expected to be quickly reunited with their families on American soil. The result was yet another frustrating incident in the long chain of false starts and policy shifts that have marked the U.S. treatment of the Cubans...
Thus began another session of what its adherents call the "business concept list," but what law-enforcement officials call the "pyramid club," an illegal and get-rich-quick variation, California-style, of the old chain-letter scam...
...such an "endless" chain is illegal in California. Since the supply of investors is finite, someone is bound to get burned, sooner or later. By last week, police had arrested 256 pyramid builders, and the craze was showing signs of fading-onlyto rise again in a less expensive form. The player invests $100, the roster contains 16 names, and the payoff is a modest $800. Enough, perhaps, to pay your lawyer if the police join the game...
Swaying palms, warm breezes, gentle waves-when it comes to the Melanesian archipelago of the New Hebrides, the standard tropical cliches are in order. The 72-island chain was, after all, the model for James Michener's Bali Ha'i in Tales of the South Pacific, later turned into a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Now, after 74 years of joint British-French colonial rule and on the eve of independence, the archipelago and its 100,000 inhabitants are experiencing their first political upheaval...
...almost to the hour when the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands will erupt, Mount St. Helens presents a more difficult problem for would-be prognosticators. The molten rock, or magma, underneath the Washington volcano is a thicker, silica-rich material (unlike the less viscous molten basalt of the Hawaiian chain); more pressure must build up before the hot gases trapped within it are released. Thus the mountain erupts infrequently and violently...