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Word: alaska (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vikings arrive first [Dec. 11]?" The ancestors of our present-day Indians and Eskimos came from Asia via Alaska, and the Norwegians, Danes and Irish appear to have found their way to our eastern coast about the year A.D. 1000. If they discovered America, nobody knew it. Now, with the land full of people and automobiles, those who are here by reason of Columbus' notable discovery are telling us that Columbus did not discover America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1979 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Mexican finds are significant but hardly a complete solution to future energy shortages. At best, oil from Mexico would put off the projected fuel crunch from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. But together with other potential big fields?in China, Iraq, Canada, South America, Alaska and elsewhere?the new bonanza in Mexico could enable the world to scrape by into the 21st century, by which time energy from alternative sources may be widely available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Mexico Joins Oil's Big Leagues | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...Alaska, by contrast, public drunkenness among adults is the big and growing problem, especially in remote communities. In Nome (pop. 2,585), a Methodist minister led a drive to close the town's seven bars and three liquor stores, pointing to the fact that two other similar-size Alaskan towns had chosen to go dry. Nome's voters rejected the idea 3 to 1, but the town council passed an ordinance closing liquor stores early, which in Nome means midnight. Bars, however, can still serve customers until 5 a.m. on Friday and Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Crazy Quilt of Liquor Laws | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...through the prolonged process that Farber did, both my newspaper and I would be belly-up and out of business," Robert M. Porterfield, who earlier this month won a court fight in Alaska very similar to the Farber case, said yesterday. The 33-year-old Porterfield is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter for the Anchorage Daily News spending a year at Harvard in the Nieman Foundation's program for professional journalists...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Nieman Fellow Avoids Farber's Plight | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...third defendant, Harry Neil Kelly, stood trial. But when Porterfield was asked during trial testimony to reveal confidential sources he used in his stories, he invoked the Alaska "Shield Law" 68 times. The 1967 law, never before tested, permits reporters to refuse to reveal their sources unless a judge orders them to after a special hearing. Kelly's defense lawyers won the right to a special hearing, but Porterfield won the right to hold on to the notes...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Nieman Fellow Avoids Farber's Plight | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

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