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Word: airing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the Peoples Temple put on a marvelous performance for their visitors. Reporters were led past the central, open-air pavilion, used as both a school and an assembly hall. The visitors saw the newly completed sawmill, the 10,000-volume library, the neat nursery, where mosquito netting protected babies sleeping peacefully on pallets. The colony hospital had delivered 33 babies without a single death, the tour guides said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Mesa, sacred Indian land, was going to be destroyed for a strip mine. In the six years after the signing of the first lease, the Navajos had seen the destruction caused by a strip mine and had watched Four Corners spew 123 million pounds of sulphur dioxide into the air each year. Six years of watching the energy companies desecrate their environment had taught people what another strip mine and power plant meant, and they weren't going to see sacred land destroyed so that people in southern Arizona, southern Utah, and Los Angeles, could be supplied with more electricity...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: from bows and arrows to lawsuits | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...attempt in this country to tag charges on emissions with the hope of providing companies with financial incentives to install clean-up devices, has been awaiting comment by the Secretary of the Interior for the past year and a half, while he considers its potential ramificiations for the Clean Air...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: from bows and arrows to lawsuits | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...air of cool gentility seems to prevail in the library. Carpeting, large, airy rooms, and nineteenth-century portraits of women signal how far one is from Lamont...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: A Room of One's Own | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

WHRB has in fact helped many bands, but only in that we have had the freedom to give them the air time that we believe they deserve. Any success achieved by these groups should be attributed to the quality of their work, and listener acceptance. Listener acceptance is what musical success is all about. Robert A. Falk '79 Program Director, WHRB

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrong Number | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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