Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOTEBOOK: First the quarterbacks, now the goalies. Last season's starter Peter Walsh decided to take a year off, and an Amherst forward stepped on Bood's leg. Blood will require stitches to close the gash, and will miss this weekend's action...Eddie Weinfurtner and Bennie Erulkar will tend the twines...The booters' record now stands at 1-2-1 (0-1 in the Ivies)...Their next game is Friday night under the lights and on astroturf at Cornell...URI visits the Business School field next Wednesday--hopefully, in slightly warmer weather...
...article in the November 78 issue of Engineering and Mining journal, titled "Minnesota: Action Heats up in the North," reported that at that time 35,000 acres had been leased for uranium exploration to five companies. Seven months later, in June 79, exploration had drastically increased. As one local commentator explains the situation, "At least seven companies are exploring for uranium in northern Minnesota, including such late arrivals as Exxon and Annaconda. The most heavily involved is Rocky Mountain Energy, a subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad. Rocky Mountain has about 75 percent of the 125,00 acres that the companies...
...called Folks Organized for Responsible Energy has joined the Northen Sun Alliance in opposing the uranium development," he continues. "They have tried to influence county officials but have had little success. A battle in the legislature has resulted only in a standoff. The state regulatory agencies are lumbering into action but can barely keep up with the proposed copper and nickel mining. The state executive board will soon decide whether to allow exploration on state lands. Much education still needs to be done around the uranium mining issue...
...coffee and doughnuts that, you were often reminded, the bored National Guardsmen who manned the place had chipped in for because the state was too cheap. Except for the intense competition, for the three phones the state supplied ("remember to make the call collect") reporters stay away. The real action is Out There, and everyone knows...
Sunday, noon. We're in Diversion City, the railroad tracks along the north fence. The big action for today is about to begin--but on the other side of the plant. The hot and heavy hard-core types from the north, who are into fence-cutting and "direct action" and who don't mind getting maced if it comes to that, have joined the south assault. The remaining protesters are here primarily to keep cops occupied. The cops don't know this--neither does part of the press...