Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From the Pacific to the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies, the winter's near-record drought meant dry riverbeds and a snowpack that in some areas was less than a fifth of the usual level. In a region where more than three-quarters of the fresh water normally comes from the spring runoff of the snowpack, the water-supply outlook for the summer months is ominous. April brought none of the hoped-for relief; it marked the seventh straight month with below-normal precipitation over much of the Far West...
...National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted that the drought, "nearly two years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply is 40% to 60% below normal. Ski resort operators in nine Western states earlier reported losses totaling $50 million. Estimates of other financial casualties are growing. In Sacramento, officials predict that the drought will cause losses of $500 million in crops, $500 million in livestock and $1 billion in farm income-more than a fifth...
...almost a year, the Scheersberg A carried out normal freight duties in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Meanwhile, construction of five missile and torpedo gunboats purchased by Israel neared completion in the French port of Cherbourg. The boats were paid for by Israel, but France had halted all military trade with Arabs and Israelis. On Nov. 17, 1969, five weeks before the Israelis seized the gunboats, the Scheersberg A crew was again told that the ship had been sold. A new crew came aboard, and another mystery voyage began. Port records show that the ship left Almeria, Spain, for a course...
...receive adequate special education. The rest must be located and placed in what the law calls the "least restrictive educational environment" by September 1978. Schools, already strapped financially, estimate that it costs $2,800 a year to educate each handicapped child, compared with $1,400 for a normal student. Meanwhile, under existing allocations, the Federal Government will underwrite only 5% of the cost of each handicapped pupil's education in 1978; it will slowly increase that...
...that is normal. The Japanese push their exports-motorcycles, autos, microwave ovens, optics-to the limits that their markets can bear. There is even a name for it-shuchu gou, literally "localized downpour...