Word: effects
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...mere exercise in catharsis. Out of all the suggestions he has heard, he has so far circulated more than 800 as "greenstripers"-official green-bordered papers calling for reaction from selected commands. Of these, 65% have been turned into "Z-grams," which are direct orders from Zumwalt to effect changes in the service. Already famous throughout the fleet, they are aimed mainly at eliminating many seemingly minor, but unsettling, irritations of military life...
...isolation cells of intense domesticity. If there is a world outside the womb walls of his plays, no one could guess it. Beckett is in a paralyzed eye-socket-to-eye-socket confrontation with a cosmos vacated by God. He refuses to move beyond his grief. Bond says, in effect: "O.K., God is dead, but we've got to work out an ethic whereby we can survive on this planet with some degree of decency." Unlike Pinter, who seems to accept violence as a norm, Bond indicts the value vacuum and brutal boredom in which men can bring themselves...
...developer does not like a commission's decision he can appeal to the state's new environmental control board. To date, the commissions have decided 36 cases; five have been appealed. Only one of those appeals has yet been ruled upon -but it has served, in effect, as a warning shout...
...rain, the ever thickening mass of filth hovers over Boston-and presumably other cities. The stagnant cloud has a faint silver lining: while making Boston's rain heavier, it will divert major storms from the city. The researchers do not yet know the dead sky's effect on human health...
...attempts to hike taxes on leaded gasoline. President Nixon last week issued an executive order that all federally owned vehicles must use no-lead or low-lead gas. His theory is excellent; such fuels reduce hydrocarbon emissions polluting the air by as much as 20%. But in effect, Washington was merely setting a good example. The Federal Government's 600,000 cars burn only one-half of 1% of the nation's yearly consumption of 85 billion gallons of gas-and 276,000 of those official cars have high-compression engines that cannot use low-lead gas. Though...